On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:41:46 +0000, Michael Jaworski wrote:

So basically the message being promulgated here is that it is ok for the
LK8000 team to take someone else's copyrighted work (which is
distributed under a licence with strict terms stating how it can be
used/distributed), create a derivative work and shirk on his contractual
obligations with the original author?

Both projects have gone off in slightly different directions. I haven't
seen XCSoar code since shortly after it was open sourced, but it was
somewhat messy and definitely uncommented at that point. Since then I
know Max has been tidying it up and modularising it with a view to making
it less dependent on one OS. Meanwhile a lot of LK8000 has been
rewritten, e.g. it uses different task file and mapping data formats now.

The bottom line is that the projects have most likely diverged
sufficiently that merging code bases now would be more trouble than its
worth.


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