Policy Statement From Raven Concerning Public Complaints About Other People

Folks, I will be as nice as I care to be with this, so please don't press it. This site is not run with First Amendment Rights. You do NOT have freedom of speech to say what you want about anything you want. I have removed 2 recent threads conerning another member's site and subscription practices. If you have a beef with someone, then handle it offline with them. There is absolutely no reason to go public with your beef, right at the beginning, unless you are looking to stack up support in your corner, in 99% of the cases.

Rather than beat around the bush, let me sum it up according to Raven's World. According to the GPL license, GPL software is free. However, GPL clearly allows for people, whether the author or not, to charge a reasonable amount for access to the media (FB is well known for this). Plain and simple. In addition, ANY AND ALL software written to be used by a GPL application MUST BE AND IS GPL regardless of how you package it. So changing your license to something else and then making it for phpNuke automatically changes your license to GPL.

So, this is not a public forum. Settle it on your own, between the two of you, the way that men ought to do. If, however, you have a valid bitch and have tried to settle it off line and are not able to, contact me in PRIVATE and ask my opinion. Do not assume that I or others will agree with either of you. Please, let this be the end of these matters.



Addendum: I will add that if someone is posting news about other people's software and is not also including the author's name and author's site in the article, then that would be wrong. it must always be evident as to where the software actually originates.