Re: development of vsta (was: ttys)

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_Dal=E9n?= <dalen@jpl.se> writes:

>The development around vsta.quackerhead.com is going forward
>independently. so far it's mostly Mark Ferrell's improvements to the
>kernel. But it's basically a fork of vsta. So do you think it's ok to
>still call it vsta or vsta 2.0 or something like that?

Since there are (apparently) many technical changes--none which reflect any
discussion with me--I would certainly request that they use a different name
for the effort. The name VSTa is tied to my efforts at designing a
microkernel, and if they respect my work enough to use it as a starting
point for their own efforts, I hope they'd also afford me the consideration
of letting the VSTa name I created only be associated with my own technical
work. (In some suitable place in their distribution it'd be nice if they
explained that their work used VSTa as its starting point.)

Since this is the first real fork which has happened with VSTa, I should
also note that I hold the copyright for the VSTa code, and would thus hold
the copyright for their derivative work--this must be flagged in the code,
and that's not a request, but a hard and fast legal requirement. Clearly,
VSTa is available under GPL and thus they are free to offer their derived
work also under those same GPL terms. But down the road they would *not* be
free to decide to offer it under a different license (they would have to
talk to me, as the copyright holder).

Thanks,
Andy Valencia
Received on 9 Aug 2004 18:00:45 GMT