[PATCH] windowscodecs: Add support for 32bppRGB, 32bppRGBA and 32bppPRGBA to format converter.

[Kai Krakow]

Hello Austin!

Generally I agree with you but the staging patches play a somewhat
different role here: Some are currently actively handled by their
authors, others are old or maybe even abandoned by their original
author. And "steal" is maybe not the best wording. Maybe the wording
should be different, and maybe it should ask to contact the original
author first.

Actually, I'm having a problem with "stealing" something. The way it's
worded leaves a negative feeling about adopting a patch and working on
it. I'd better not pick patches to actively work on them and submit
them, because the news item considered it stealing... at least
regarding IP. Actually, it's quite common work-flow of forking, adding
IP to a project and giving back. But this feels different. What do you
think?

Regards,
Kai

Am Mi., 30. Jan. 2019 um 02:47 Uhr schrieb Austin English
<austinenglish at gmail.com>:
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 18:55 Dmitry Timoshkov <dmitry at baikal.ru wrote:
>>
>> Kai Krakow <kai at kaishome.de> wrote:
>>
>> > > Please don't send my patches from wine-staging for inclusion to winehq,
>> > > I prefer to take care of that on my own when time permits. I already
>> > > asked about that more than once.
>> >
>> > This probably results from the offer sent with every news item that
>> > says: Please steal the staging patches and submit them.
>>
>> That's not an offer, that's a game of some sort. People are usually taught
>> in their childhood that stealing is bad, and often rightfully get punished
>> for that. That particilar line from the wine-staging news should be removed,
>> it just creates an unpleasant picture of the project.
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry.
>
>
> It's open source code, I don't think the LGPL lets you limit its use in this way, but I'm welcome to be proven wrong.