Re: Open Source Considerations (was: Re: Any 6502 devs for hire?)

From: groepaz_at_gmx.net
Date: Fri, 06 May 2022 16:47:40 +0200
Message-ID: <9155881.lqRGMn8q6B_at_rakete>
Am Freitag, 6. Mai 2022, 15:39:19 CEST schrieb Jim Brain:
> I realize this strays from our technical discussions, but I do feel the
> inability to share details for technical discussion due to these
> concerns is lamentable.  And yes, to groepaz' point, anyone who shares
> stuff publicly should know it will be copied and abused.  I will counter
> that I should still be able to complain about it.  Not from the "Hey,
> you used my design in a way I did not intend" perspective, but from the
> "this will just encourage people to not share, and that sucks".
>
> And yes, I am angry on behalf of the VICE devs, who openly shared all
> the code (which is often extremely helpful in designing hardware or
> understanding how the systems work) and THEC64, THEVIC20, etc. people
> used it without offering anything to the community that spent so much
> time on it.

Speaking of VICE and sharing details for technical discussion - "we" still do
this. A ton of insights and research work i am doing for Chameleon for example
goes into VICE and is publicly available for everyone. And there is this pdf i
made about the undocumented opcodes, which also in large parts comes from this
kind of work. So there is stuff that can - and is - shared, technical details.
However actual software or hardware - no :)


--

http://hitmen.eu                 http://ar.pokefinder.org
http://vice-emu.sourceforge.net  http://magicdisk.untergrund.net

A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
<Olin Miller>
Received on 2022-05-06 17:01:20

Archive generated by hypermail 2.3.0.