> Here's my offer to Harald Frank. Two dollars and a
> six pack of Guinness for the source code and ...
That's a generous offer, but the only source that appears in Umilator that's related to A*ith**n are already licensed under the GPL and are freely available to Bernd for use in Umilator. Harald would be off his nut to claim the Linux Kernel or the GPL modifications to it belong to him. I believe there's a certain
longhair that would have something to say about that claim.
> licensing for your product called Amithlon.
The only parts I can think of that would need to be licensed are A) Haralds code, and B) the trademark. The code has been disposed of and is no longer needed, so scratch A, and the trademark is disputable, but the trademark is not being used anyway, so that's moot as well.
> I want to donate whatever contributions were
> made to the Umilator sources
ie: none. None of Haralds code was used. Harald, AFAIK claims the "concept" of his code belongs to him. This is mooted as well, as Bernd, from the looks of the feature lists has not only rewritten the parts he needed, but implemented them in a different way, for example, the networking being handled by the linux kernel, the way the parallel ports are now implemented is also completely different. His so called "concept", as loose a case as it is, wasn't even used.
That leaves no technical or legal reason for Harald to cite, so he resorts to his last desparate tactic...
> so that product can continue in peace.
...Peace. Harald is going to publicaly and privately harass everyone who has anything to do with Umilator, a product he has no claims to, none at all. We've all seen the public displays, and most have heard rumors about the private displays.
It's harmless. The dog has no teeth. The dog has no legs to stand on. All it can do is
bark and slober.
I'm estatic that this project is finally moving forward, it (and Bernd) deserves to succeed.
