Cesar D. Rodas wrote:
> Hello
>
> On 06/12/2007, *Philippe Jausions* <
Philippe.Jausions@...
> <mailto:
Philippe.Jausions@...>> wrote:
>
> till wrote:
> > I swear to whatever you believe.
> >
> > I worked on a project a while back where the client wanted to backup
> > into S3. They had a bunch of wrappers (straight php, curl) but
> it did
> > not work. So when I asked them who did this, they didn't know
> and said
> > it was some intern and it had 0 copyrights/names on it.
>
> Now we're getting somewhere...
>
> > I ported the class to use HTTP_Request etc., recently I put in
> > CRYPT_HMAC2 as well to go more PHP5 when I used it at another
> client.
> > And now I will use MIME_Type etc. and change the behavior from
> global
> > constants to class vars to follow suggestions given in comments.
>
> Future changes don't really apply here.
>
> > Both parties told me that they had no problem if I proposed it
> to PEAR
> > since I made it work and polished it up. So if some intern
> indeed took
> > your code in the beginning, I am still not aware of this. The first
> > project dates back to over three months ago.
>
> There are too many similarities especially with typos in comments (no
> offense Cesar ;) to not give credit to Cesar for the original code.
>
>
> Dont worry, as you can see (or read) English is not my first language,
> it is my third language.
In this case, it's actually helping you ;-)
>
> No one is making a million $ on this, and you both use OSS licenses.
>
>
> Even the class is free, it must have my name there, if you use a
> porting of code it means that you accept what the BSD License say.
Yes, agree, this is what I meant. The stakes are not high, just abiding
by the license is required.
> I think that Gregory Beaver <mailto:greg+at+chiaraquartet+dot+net>
> (
http://news.php.net/php.pear.dev/48696) shows many proves that the
> code was write be me.
>
> Personally I don't believe the story of some other one copy the code,
> removes only the copyrights, and give him without copyrights.
Not necessarily, the "intern" may not have wanted the company to know
that the work he/she provided was not actually his/hers, while still
getting some credit for it.
> Get the class is so easy, if you Google "php amazon s3 stream
> wrapper", or "php amazon s3 client", you can see on the first the
> result my class, so a PHP programmer will google something similar to
> that easily than a mere mortal or a "client"
>
> --
> Best Regards
>
> Cesar D. Rodas
> <
http://www.cesarodas.com>
-Philippe
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