Re: Ethics of competing proposals

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 17:06 +0000, Helgi Þormar wrote: > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:13 +0200, Luca Mariano wrote: > > On 7/18/05, Clay Loveless <clay@killersoft.com> wrote: > > > * Luca Mariano, first-time PEAR contributor, makes an informal HTML_AJAX > > > package proposal to PEAR-DEV list. > > > > Oh no, I'm not so young :-) > > I still mantain the PHP_Fork package and (very little, mea culpa) > > stephan's Net_Server package. I'm in Pear since 2003, so the list > > discussions are not a problem for me. > > IMHO the point is that having an Ajax implementation in pear is > > urgent, since this is probably the way to go for web applications. > > This is the _only_ reason I made HTML_Ajax; as I previuosly said I > > don't think my code is the best, indeed I like Joush's coding style > > and I'm ready to delete my proposal and go voting Josh's one. > > Definitly I'm glad to have raised the Ajax brainstorming into > > pear-dev; we got many good suggestions (like the API abstraction, the > > nice behaviour.js library, etc ) and we smoothed the road to a > > widely-accepted HTML_Ajax. > > While we are on the topic of ethics, I want everyone to look at this: > > > http://absinth.modernmethod.com/sajax/sajax-0.10/php/example_multiply.php > (view source) > > > http://www.lucamariano.it/upload/pear-proposal/ajax/HTML_Ajax-0.1.0.tgz > and look at ajaxlib.js in examples dir > > I would think that leaving the copyright and not credit him self would > be the ethical thing to do :-) > > It's not very hard to see it's a copy/paste with function name altering. > I'm not sure BSD license allows that (sajax having that license least > time I knew) > > Just wanted to bring that up since we were on this topic :-) And of course the proposal gets pulled right after my post *grumble* :-) Look at Joshua's email about that proposal change, so this copyright stuff is no longer relevant. - Helgi