Hi everyone,
Firstly, excuse me for beeing so quiet these past few months.
I wanted to inform you that the FreeMedForms project is still alive and will release soon a 1.0 version after one year of testing and debugging.
The project has just been forked by Jérôme Pinguet. The code and wiki are actually reproduced on one other website (a copy/paste effort). As he tells me, he wanted to have his own soft for his commercial activities and that he will ignore open source users comments and wishes... The FreeMedForms community will not support this fork and some members of the community asked me to bannish Jérôme Pinguet. Nothing is done yet. All his access to the community servers, wiki, forum, repositories are currently removed. I think he stole private data too. There is a threat, he will probably not respect the GPL license terms.
Open source can lead to such a situation, I hope we will find the best way to figure this. For sure, the FreeMedForms project is still alive and will pursue its efforts !
Freely, Éric https://www.maeker.fr/ https://www.freemedforms.com/
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On Tue, 2016-08-16 at 23:38 +0200, Eric Maeker wrote:
Hi everyone,
Hi Eric,
Firstly, excuse me for beeing so quiet these past few months. I wanted to inform you that the FreeMedForms project is still alive and will release soon a 1.0 version after one year of testing and debugging.
That's good to know :)
I intend to continue maintaining it in Fedora - so we've got that covered.
The project has just been forked by Jérôme Pinguet. The code and wiki are actually reproduced on one other website (a copy/paste effort). As he tells me, he wanted to have his own soft for his commercial activities and that he will ignore open source users comments and wishes...
The FreeMedForms community will not support this fork and some members of the community asked me to bannish Jérôme Pinguet. Nothing is done yet. All his access to the community servers, wiki, forum, repositories are currently removed. I think he stole private data too.
Ah? Is there any evidence of this - it's worth investigating - what sort of data would this be? (The community needs to be extremely careful while making such claims.)
There is a threat, he will probably not respect the GPL license terms. Open source can lead to such a situation, I hope we will find the best way to figure this. For sure, the FreeMedForms project is still alive and will pursue its efforts !
I ran into https://freemedsoft.com/. This makes me think Jerome intends to use the support based business model, which, quite frankly, is OK - it's extremely common. He's also contributed to freemedforms, so it isn't really him stealing - the code is open source after all. As long as he continues to contribute, I don't see much harm. In fact, it may help FreeMedForms gain a wider audience :)
I haven't spoken to him personally, of course, and assuming that you have, you may understand his ideas and plans better.
I do agree that duplication of the website and forum etc. without giving due credit to the original project is not the best way to go about it.
Still, I'd suggest giving him ample time to explain himself before making a decision.
Please do let us know if we can help in any way. - -- Thanks, Regards, Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
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