Am a little sad. But ok, i said i can delete it and the consensus here is to do so...
I have delete the repro... But of course I have a local clone...
tormod wrote:Personally I don't like github that much. Last time I checked they are a proprietary service running on proprietary software, they are "too big to fail", and they will probably be bought up by some bigger company soon who is going to "enhance" it.
I didn't see a problem here.
Yes, GitHub is a commercial service, but it's free for OpenSource projects. Maybe they use proprietary software (I don't know). What's the problem?
And IMHO it's the same with gitorious, sourceforge, launchpad and code.google.com, isn't it?
Actually, GitHub is only a Web-GUI for a git repository. But it's IMHO the best of all providers. Because it's easy to use. At least sourceforge and launchpad is ugly to use. They provide to much services... code.google.com is feature less and not very often used. gitorious, i don't know...
What can happen if GitHub close the doors? At least the main developer has a local clone of the git repository... Everyone can fork it, pull it to some other service like gitorious, sourceforge, launchpad or code.google.com... Or you can mirror it there...
What happen if this forum will crash? If the archive will crash? Have someone a complete, up-to-date copy of all contents? Can everyone made easy a copy of them? What happens if the Wiki crash?
In all these cases, you can try to find the information in services as
https://archive.org/ But this is difficult.
tormod wrote:Please note that everything posted on internet is not automatically GPL licensed
You can take public domain stuff and use it in your own software which you then are free to license as you want. On the other hand it is not good tone to just relicence other people's work without consulting them.
Yes, you are right. The problem here is, that the most posted stuff just has no license
If it's not explicit marked as public domain, then it's just no license.
It is probably for historical reasons, that nobody marked this uploads. I would suggest: You all should always specify a license and add information into the source file, too.
Yes, e.g. with GPL: It is against the license, if the full GNU GPL licence text is missing. For me it is enough if there is the name of the license in the sourcecode file.
Let's look ahead: Let's collect the needed information for using the DWLOAD stuff ->
http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index.php?title=DWLOAD
EDIT: I created
http://archive.worldofdragon.org/index. ... Repository with links to all projects.