[gPXE-devel] Etherboot Enterprise ID request

[Michael Brown]

On Thursday 15 Jul 2010 04:17:09 Marty Connor wrote:
> More importantly, you can never take back any of the rights you have
> already given by licensing code under the GPL.

Not quite true; if you were at any point to distribute the code in violation 
of the terms of the GPL [0] (for example, by distributing Etherboot binary 
images without providing either the corresponding source code or an offer to 
provide the corresponding source code) [1], then you would automatically lose 
your right to copy, modify, sublicense and distribute the code.  (No-one 
else's rights would be affected by any such violation, only yours.)

Please stop acting as though you own my code.  You do not own my code.  You 
have a licence, granted by me, to copy, modify, and distribute my code, 
provided that you remain in compliance with my chosen terms.  Nothing that you 
do (short of completely removing or replacing all of my code, which you seem 
reluctant to do despite my encouragement) can change this.

There are many other people who also own copyrights in parts of the iPXE/gPXE 
codebase; I speak only for myself and for my code.  I respect your copyright 
over your 2.15% of the codebase; please respect my copyright over my 41% of 
the codebase.

Michael

[0] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt

[1] http://www.fensystems.co.uk/~mcb30/romomatic.png