Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on File System::S3

till wrote: > I swear to whatever you believe. > > I worked on a project a while back where the client wanted to backup > into S3. They had a bunch of wrappers (straight php, curl) but it did > not work. So when I asked them who did this, they didn't know and said > it was some intern and it had 0 copyrights/names on it. Now we're getting somewhere... > I ported the class to use HTTP_Request etc., recently I put in > CRYPT_HMAC2 as well to go more PHP5 when I used it at another client. > And now I will use MIME_Type etc. and change the behavior from global > constants to class vars to follow suggestions given in comments. Future changes don't really apply here. > Both parties told me that they had no problem if I proposed it to PEAR > since I made it work and polished it up. So if some intern indeed took > your code in the beginning, I am still not aware of this. The first > project dates back to over three months ago. There are too many similarities especially with typos in comments (no offense Cesar ;) to not give credit to Cesar for the original code. > On Dec 6, 2007 5:21 AM, Cesar D. Rodas <saddor@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Really?, take a look on the code, there are so similar, and I was code it >> long time ago, I have prove... >> >> Can U explain why, even the comments are similar?, why you only don't accept >> it, you copy.. I wont be angry :-) >> >> Even the package has my same English mistakes ;-) on the comments >> >> On 06/12/2007, till <klimpong@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Cesar, >>> >>> I was not aware of your package and DID NOT COPY ANY OF YOUR CODE. (Not knowingly) >>> I build this code over 3 months ago and used it in the last month on a >>> website and since I was using it in production decided to release it. >>> I have no idea when you came up with it, but there are also other >>> people who wrote similar packages. "Built upon existing code provided by client" would sound more appropriate. >>> E.g. Clay notified me last night that he had written a very similar >>> package. >>> >>> Till No one is making a million $ on this, and you both use OSS licenses. -Philippe