[Coco] VCC Status …

[Stephen H. Fischer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Aaron Wolfe" <aawolfe at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Status …


> The issue is more one of whether the person who intended to make it open
> source was legally entitled to do so.  If the rights had been sold or
> otherwise transferred to someone else that may not be the case.  I believe
> this is what Steven was referring to.
> 
> I would suggest posting very publicly an intention to release the code
> according to the authors wishes as we understand them, and waiting a
> reasonable time for someone to protest.

Or ask him directly, he is not on the [CoCo] list but I expect his e-mail address is in the posts the extracted words were from in the [CoCo] archive.

I have a GMANE archive which does not have his e-mail address.

He never responded to my hints and no one directly asked his permission to release the source while he was posting.

The VCC source appears to be available to some select persons, the one additional location I know about the webmaster very clearly stated to me that he had no permission to make it public. That webmaster is keeping one important CoCo site online but has said nothing about anything including the ups and downs of his sites one of which I suspect has the source (VERY HIDDEN). Plus I suspect he is hording source for other things we would want. We were the first pair of persons to strongly disagree on his actions thus I will not say anything more.

SHF