On 31 Jul, 23:47, goo...@schabel-family.org wrote:
> Dear Mr. Little,
>
> I usually avoid responding to trolling, but your post (and subsequent
> ones) verges on defamatory, so I'd like to clarify this matter.

<...>

FWIW Its helpful to others if you reply in thread:

http://tinyurl.com/23hjp4

> For the record, here is the exact and complete text of the private
> email to which you refer in your post:
>
> "Congratulations on getting your Units library into boost.
>
> It has come to my attention that I am mentioned in the
> acknowledgments
> section of the draft documentation of your library mcs_units_v0.7.2,
> however
> I have to my knowledge made no direct contribution to or criticism of
> said
> library, nor do I in any way support or endorse said library and both
> my PQS
> library previously submitted to boost and my Quan libraries and their
> entire
> documentation which have been in the public domain and which are
> protected
> by copyright licence require that any derivative works shall as a
> courtesy
> be clearly marked as deriving from my original work and shall provide
> appropriate attribution, including copyright, to me, Andy Little, for
> my
> prior original work and ideas.
>
> I would be grateful if you either remove my name from your
> documentation
> entirely in which case I shall assume you are claiming that there is
> no
> derivation of your work in mcs_units_v0.7.2 from my work in a similar
> domain
> or provide fully detailed and annotated attribution of parts of your
> library
> that are derived from my work.
>
> regards
> Andy Little"
>
> I particularly would like to draw attention to your words of the last
> paragraph, where you specifically request that your name be removed
> from the documentation entirely.

No, its an if-else clause :
If you are claiming that there is no derivation, then please remove my
name,
else provide clear attribution of the work you have derived from mine.
That should include inline in the derived work, an unambiguous
reference to the original work, my name and copyright.

Maybe you arent familar with this convention? Failure to follow it can
lead you open to a charge of plagiarism.

> You may assume by its absence in the
> current versions that I am in fact stating that the (now) Boost.Units
> (formerly mcs::units) library derives no significant part of its code,
> ideas, or documentation from any version of your Quan library.

Interesting choice of words. The above suggests that some, in your
opinion, "insignificant" parts, were derived from my work, which
incidentally includes both Quan and PQS. PQS has been around and
reasonably well known for some years now, whereas Quan is quite
recent. That said, the major ideas in Quan were already there in PQS.

What is actually significant or otherwise is a matter of opinion.

There is of course, the mystery of why my name was put there in the
first place...


> In
> fact, to the contrary, after a brief and futile attempt to make any
> sense out of Quan, I was so mortified by the thought that it might
> become a Boost library that I was compelled to develop the
> implementation that was ultimately accepted into Boost (with major
> contributions from Steven Watanabe, the co-author of that library).

I have had a fair amount of feedback regarding both Quan and PQS. In
the vast majority of cases the feedback was specific, hence answerable
and generally enthusiastic.

(To all the people that did get in touch, I apologise for not
continuing to develop the library publicly. I do feel I have let some
people down, though in my defence I have always clearly marked both
PQS and Quan as Alpha.)

In your case though Mr Schabel, there has been no direct feedback
whatsoever. However I believe you have in public to others, made
several generalised, emotive comments in a similar vein to those
above.

> > You guys might want to look at the following site too:
>
> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism.
>
> I would suggest you consider:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slander_and_libel
>
> or provide tangible evidence of your (false) accusations in the
> future.

Sure. The question is simple. Did you or did you not derive parts of
your Boost Units library from my work. As yet you havent given a
direct answer. I invite you to answer simply, yes or no.

Andy Little
(no regards)