Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Peter Cheung Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: peter-swing Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <21050172.982.1335476946904.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbsw19> References: <15372322.181.1335299218185.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbqb5> <30295463.494.1335447028982.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcnj6> <30110576.211.1335459876873.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcqo4> NNTP-Posting-Host: 124.244.127.83 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335477822 10180 127.0.0.1 (26 Apr 2012 22:03:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:03:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <30110576.211.1335459876873.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcqo4> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=124.244.127.83; posting-account=10LjMwkAAAAVcy8G3B3qqGRpk0olXjxD User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 2977 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13932 Lew=E6=96=BC 2012=E5=B9=B44=E6=9C=8827=E6=97=A5=E6=98=9F=E6=9C=9F=E4=BA=94U= TC+8=E4=B8=8A=E5=8D=881=E6=99=8204=E5=88=8636=E7=A7=92=E5=AF=AB=E9=81=93=EF= =BC=9A > markspace wrote: > > Peter Cheung wrote: > >> peter-swing is open source project, open source project plagiarized > >> another open source project? > >=20 > > Open source does not mean free. Most open source licenses have > > restrictions. When you read the line below, what does it mean to you? > > And why did you remove not only the copyright notice, but also ALL Java > > doc comments? > >=20 > >>> * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. >=20 > Quite aside from the ethical and legal malfeasance, the engineering basis= for including source to the core Java libraries as your own is non-existen= t. Platform classes are already part of the platform; why would "peter-swin= g" need to copy them at all, much less steal them? >=20 > This raises the distinct possibility that the code itself, quite aside fr= om the documentation lack, the ethics lack, the build script lack, and the = legal dodginess, is crap. I cannot expect that a product built on the unnec= essary duplication of classes guaranteed to be present anyway would be othe= rwise. >=20 > I am willing to hear countervailing evidence, but so far the OP has only = responded with ambiguous sentence fragments and avoidance of the issues rai= sed, or to the very limited extent that he responded, weak excuses. >=20 > --=20 > Lew Actually I don't need MetalBump.java. I removed it from my project. Please = update from svn.