Subject: Re: handling copyright/license infringement
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 09/16/2004 09:02:36
On 16-Sep-04, at 8:52 AM, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Today, I found out that someone took the core parts of said software,
> adjusted it to run on Linux (not much to do - it was mostly shell
> scripts), removed all traces of my name and license on the original
> software, and instead put his own name in and put everything under the
> GPL.
>
> I asked what's going on, and as a reply I was told that the scripts 
> were
> not based on mine - something rather easy to prove wrong when looking 
> at
> them (differences are mostly renamed variables, removal of my name; 
> same
> code structure, even in help messages, etc.).


....ask on slashdot, give URL's showing evidence (both sets of code, 
proof of release dates, etc), and let anarchy prevail...