ImageDisk project is canceled

[Christer O. Andersson]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:16:35PM +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Christer O. Andersson wrote:
> >They could help with ImageDisk if the source was available.
> 
> It *is* available. It's just not downloadable from any website because it's 
> not considered by the author to yet be polished enough for people to be 
> adding their own features and working on collaborative development.

That makes it almost avaiable. Dave admitted it to be a mistake to
mention "NDA", and I agree. If the code is polished enough for
people to use, it ought to be polished enough to read.

> >>  Dave Dunfield is producing working tools, *free of charge*.  He's 
> >>taking suggestions for features and fixes, he's made his image format 
> >>freely available.  But it's his, to do with and to distribute as he 
> >>pleases.
> >
> >And that is a problem. If you rely on his tools, and find it
> >malfunctions in some way, you cannot fix the problem without the
> >source. If Dave is not supporting his tool anymore for some reason,
> >your stuck. Your saved disk might be lost. If the source is available
> >you can either fix it yourself or arrange with somebody to fix it
> >for you.
> 
> But, yet again, source *is* available, and Dave made that clear early on. I 
> really don't get why so many people seem to be missing that point.
> 
The "NDA" makes it impossible to share the source, whether you have
made any improvements yourself, or if you want to ask somebody else
to help you modify something due to a bug somewhere. You are not
allowed to do that.

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Christer O. Andersson
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