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--- Comment #12 from Mike H <mystica@???> 2014-11-05 13:07:31 ---
Firstly, Phil, I apologize for my tone. I was angry. Unfortunately without
this anger, I tend to be almost entirely passive and nothing ever gets done...
So perhaps a bit of anger was warranted. I see positive results now, when 5
years ago similar requests to have code released were met with staunch 'lawyers
said its ok' answers.
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.law.gpl.violations.legal/2066
Indeed, I cannot speak for you or your group's licensing motivations, I was
only attempting to come to grips with what rights your choice of GPL licensing
afforded me, that I felt were being wrongly taken away by a third party.
To reply directly to Dreas:
> The person that opened this bug ticket does not appear to be our (direct) customer. As we've received no customer request to share any sourcecode recently), I'm also not able to link him to any client.
Correct. You obscure your configs; I obscure my identity, and further, that of
our common customer.
Had I actually gone through with reverse-engineering the file format, I did not
wish for our common customer to suffer any repercussions based upon actions
taken entirely for personal benefit. You could not claim license infringement,
because technically _i_ never licensed your product.
(at initial glance, it seemed that string frequency could probably be linked to
common words in an exim config, or letters in the English alphabet
statistically, etc)
However, I believe that comment #9 and the now deleted attachment was the code
that should allow me to view the config file. This has negated my desire to
reverse engineer the file format to further my own understanding of what your
software is doing.
I look forward to seeing how we can come to an amicable conclusion that will
allow me to view and understand the config file being used, and then be able to
contact you with a more direct request of "I would like X to be modified to Y,
please let me know your thoughts" rather than "Please attempt to figure out why
X is failing" -- usually a similar request to what our customer's support staff
would initially present us with.
And, one other response, as to why I would be looking at these configs at all:
Our customer pays us to understand what happens within their network, how it is
configured, and provide support on it; they have been a customer for a _very_
long time because we have provided them with great support, so they ask us,
first, for any technical related matters. Including third party products.
I would ideally like to give at least some idea of what a problem might be,
instead of an opaque "please wait while we contact the vendor" 100% of the time
with your product.
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