Read into this more, here http://www.cpaptalk.com/viewtopic/t174687/SleepyHead-Project... and here http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread-SleepyHead-version-1...
Its not as black and white as it seems
Its not as black and white as it seems
I've fallen into that pattern myself, and seen my code forked and extended by those that were still interested. The thing that stung was them erasing all the commit history giving me attribution!
I respect all the work and dedication it took him to build what he did, but from the reading I've done on the forums, it does appear that he is the primary source of all this drama. There really isn't any competing interests, and no big corporate takeover.
- Maintainer disappeared for a while, people wanted their fixes merged.
- ApneaBoard community made a "1.1.0" release of "SleepyHead" without the author's approval, rather than forking it and calling it something else.
- Maintainer unhappy about them using his trademark without his permission.
So Mark says. The ApneaBoard folks say that it was released by Mark's chosen right hand man.
As far as I can tell the ApneaBoard folks have yet to release their own version or fork the code. They seem to be organizing to do just that which is what set Mark off.
It's a mess.
He doesn't seem to be willing to cede ANY control to someone, but also needs to take several months off the project at a time. Neither of these are inherently bad but you can't have it both ways.