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I appreciate the support of people both on/off Aardwolf here, but have read several statements giving the implication that someone is 'speaking on my behalf' when in fact they are not. For example, I don't recall ever describing our listing on TMS as an 'experiment'.
Nothing new is going to be said here -- if the Aardwolf folks really want to help, then do so by reading the whole thread and then staying out of it, or even better, help with testing of the new codebase as it is developed.
In the meantime, ownership of the license itself is not clear. DIKU university don't care enough to even acknowledge four emails sent over a period of several weeks questioning intellectual property of university projects. The DIKU coders have been claiming "violation" for close on 10 years now at Medievia and if KaVir's site is authentic, even have identical comments in source code to prove it, yet have made no claim on their works. Then there is the whole situation of this "clarification" of intentions -- intentions can have a tendency to change scope a little once you release a commercial product competing with your formerly free version.
If I had seen those intentions years ago, would I have let Aardwolf grow to the point it did? Probably not. I can't go back in time now though - only move forward with the new code. If the whole situation 'discourages' people from releasing code that is unfortunate, one would hope it would instead encourage them to write better licenses and make their intentions crystal clear from the start.
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