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alexande | Aleksej Serdjukov | Re: Program Quoter - you are very welcomed |
March 3, 2018 8:24 AM * |
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<MSGID_2=3A5020=2F1042.42=40fidonet_4f7f304d@fidonet.org> From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@newmail.ru> Hi, Aleksej Serdjukov! How are you? on Friday, 06 of April, I read your messsage to alexander koryagin about "Program Quoter - you are very welcomed" AS> The page says "The autor permits using this version of the program AS> freely, providing that the program will not be modified or used for AS> commersial purposes." AS> First, of course, the language: it should be "author" and AS> "commercial". Yeah, it is fucking Billy's Front Page 2000 must be blamed. ;-) I could not make it to spell check an English text. It is tuned to Russian and there is no possibility to swith it into English. Can you imagine it? Well, my hurry must be blamed, too. Thanks, anyway. AS> I can understand not wanting to allow commercial use, although it AS> doesn't seem like a practical idea: look at all the free (as in AS> "freedom" software. When Reformator package is ready in its final form it can be (in principal) a commerical product, unless I decide to release it as a freeware product. AS> Second, what is the reason for limiting modification? AS> If somebody wants to make malware of your program, they can just AS> change the MD5 sum in the file (or even make a program with a AS> similar user interface from scratch). But if somebody thinks the AS> program has a bug, or wants to add a new feature to it, they will AS> have to contact you. If you abandon the program, or don't want to AS> add the feature, they will be out of luck. I prohibited modifications, appealing rather to people's conscience. Of course if a person wants to commit a crime he will commit it. ;-) It is imposssible to improve this program without the source texts. In the Reformator package every important function has an empty duplicate. So, if Reformator package complied as Quoter only, nobody can get access to other Reformator unilites. As for the MD5 checking, yes a hacker can put a malware into my program and distrubute it for instance selling his pirate CDs. But any person who downloads my program from my site can be sure that it is perfectly safe. MD5 checking serves for the purpose I declared: it checks the integrity of the program which can be broken for one or another reason. In the next modification I'll put into "about box" the URL where anybody can find the latest version of the Quoter. AS> I can also imagine an argument that somebody could change the AS> program and publish the binary without publishing the source. AS> That's prohibited by copyleft free software licenses like GNU GPL, AS> and that's why simply removing copyright restrictions is not a good AS> solution to what copyright laws have come to. So, for a while there is only one way be more or less sure that my program was not be changed by crooks: download it from my site. Actually md5 sum is like my signiture. [...Diseases are the interests of pleasures] Bye Aleksej! Alexander (yAlexKo[]yandex.ru) + 2:5020/2140.91 fido7.english-tutor 2012 --- ifmail v.2.15dev5.4 * Origin: Demos online service (2:5020/400) |
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