[Typo3-dev] About respect

[Jean-David Gadina]

Ok guys, let's talk a bit about respect,
I'm very sorry if this is not the place, but I just can't avoid this...

I've seen today on t3.org a new version of kj_recycler. That  
extension exists since a long time, but older versions were  
incompatible with new T3 versions. So it has been depreciated by the  
DocTeam on the wiki, and on the repository.
I've made, also a long time ago, a similar extension  
(content_uneraser), to have a working recovering system on new T3  
versions, with some nice visual features which were absent on  
kj_recycler.
I've immediately checked the new version. I think «competition»  
between extension developers is a very good thing, as it helps to  
improve the extensions' features.
But when I checked the code, I saw some parts of my own code, without  
any copyright nor credit. My own code comments were completely  
stripped, some variables renamed...

I don't care if a developer take my code, as it's released on GPL in  
an open-source community. It's even often a kind of compliment. It  
show the work is appreciated. But even, and maybe especially with  
open-source software, I think they are some rules to respect.

Is it so hard to show some respect to the others' work? Is it so hard  
to send me an email just to tell those things? Is it so hard to keep  
code comments and to add a little line with a credit? Was it really  
the solution to get that extension un-depreciated?

At least, if that developer had contacted me, he would now have my  
code working, which is not really the case at the moment. So I'm very  
angry right now. Not because someone used my code, it's here to be  
used, modified, improved, etc, but because it's a total mark of  
disrespect...

I just wanted to say this somewhere, to ease my mind and to come down  
a little bit...
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Jean-David Gadina (macmade)
www.gadlab.net - Multimedia Network