[X2go-dev] source code repository

[Gerry Reno]

On 07/15/2010 12:56 PM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 07/15/2010 05:55 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> On Do 15 Jul 2010 03:15:13 CEST Gerry Reno wrote:
>>
>>> Heinz,
>>>   I went looking for the source code at http://git.x2go.org/ today 
>>> but there is nothing there.  Is the source code at some other URL?  
>>> I think a lot of questions could be answered and good contributions 
>>> suggested if the source was readily available which it should be 
>>> since x2go is linking NX GPL-v2 libraries.
>>
>> I am also looking forward to more collaboration ...
>>
>> I think some of us list-folks are hoping for more possibilities of 
>> contributing (ideas, bugs, patches), a source code repos will be one 
>> aspect of this.
>>
>> (I personally love to know if things I am hoping for have a chance of 
>> becoming real some time in the near futures.)
>>
>> Another possibility - and this is also one possible way of 
>> approaching a project like x2go - is that Heinz and Alex state 
>> explicitly that priorities are different in the core development team 
>> and driving forward collaboration is not on the current agenda. This 
>> will also be OK!!! But if so, I think, it needs a statement on the 
>> x2go-dev list, so people around get informed.
>>
>>
>> Greets,
>> Mike
>>
>>
>>
>
> I'm certain that with a small team that Alex and Heinz have their 
> hands full with this project.  And it is their choice where 
> collaboration tools like forums, wikis, mailing lists and such appear 
> on their agenda of priorities.  What is not an open source editor's 
> choice is license compliance with the GPL.  The GPL specifically 
> requires that the source code be made available for any derivative 
> works which have linked GPL code.  There's no "wiggle" room about this.
>
> Gerry
>

The GPL has been consistently upheld in courts around the world.  Here 
is one of the latest cases that has reaffimed the legality and 
enforceability of the GPL license.  It is a French case involving remote 
desktop software that was filed, not by the copyright holder, but by a 
user of the software.  The court recognized the legitimacy of the user 
to bring the lawsuit because the GPL grants users rights to the software.

http://fsffrance.org/news/article2009-09-22.en.html

Gerry