WB Display (was: Which WB O2 is Best??)

[David LaRoe]

LOL!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bernd Felsche" <bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au>
To: <diy_efi at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 3:21 AM
Subject: Re: WB Display (was: Which WB O2 is Best??)


> Andrew Theurer tapped away at the keyboard with:
>
> > > I won't be making the source code available until the DIY-WB
> > > EULA is clarified to remove the suggestion that any artistic
> > > work related to the DIY-WB becomes the property of anyone other
> > > than the author of that work.
>
> > Peter, may I suggest the following:
> > If you are in support of a GPL type license, write your code with
> > examples that show different voltage ranges that one could use, so
> > that the device is designed to work with possibly many O2 sensors,
> > or other sensors which report as voltage, and host it on another
> > site licensed as GPL (sorceforge, anywhere) and do not explicitly
> > "submit" it to DIY_WB and its EULA.  Then, users have the choice
> > to use your contribution towards whatever application they have,
> > be it DIY_WB, MAP, whatever.   I think this would be a good start
> > towards a GPL efi type project.
>
> You don't understand the EULA.
>
> Once you've been "tainted" by exposure to the content of the
> information provided, you must not use that knowledge in any way for
> profit. *Any* work relating to wide-band lambda sensors must also
> be forwarded to the GMECM list.
>
> All of those conditions hold regardless of any prior knowledge or
> prior art in the field. e.g. if somebody at NGK or Bosch is
> "exposed" to the content of the WB-DIY; they are expected to forward
> all their development information on wide-band sensors to GMECM, and
> can no longer profit from their usual work. The claim of the DIY-WB
> is on all forms of ion-pump drive.
>
> That is despite the DIY-WB information being placed in the public
> domain.
>
> As Peter has looked at DIY-WB, he's tainted and can no longer
> "profit" from the information therein (even if that information was
> previously available through other channels).
>
> Nor can Peter (or anybody) "profit" from any device or algorithm
> relating to DIY-WB as such works automatically fall within the
> claims of the EULA. If the EULA were binding, Peter is not entitled
> to any Copyright on such works as they automatically become the
> property of the "DIY-WB TEAM".
>
> His work can therefore not be placed under CopyLeft or Copyright as
> he does not own any of it, despite the magnitude of his own efforts.
> That is because the "DIY-WB TEAM" are empowered by the EULA to take
> ownership of all subsequent and previous work in the field.
>
> You will be assimilated.
>
> --
> Bernd Felsche - Innovative Reckoning, Perth, Western Australia
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