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RE: Unfriendly person violating GPL at http://www.cmdtools.com/
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- To: "Joerg Schilling" <schilling at fokus dot gmd dot de>,<cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 08:53:36 +1000
- Subject: RE: Unfriendly person violating GPL at http://www.cmdtools.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joerg Schilling [mailto:schilling@fokus.gmd.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 1:18 AM
> To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
> Subject: Unfriendly person violating GPL at http://www.cmdtools.com/
>
>
> Hi,
>
> a few hours ago, I send a friendly mail to Dave Navarro
> <dave@basicguru.com> telling him that he is violating GPL
> because he publishes a cdrtool binary package (including
> Cygwin) without providing source at the same place.
>
> I also told him that he may either remove the binaries or add sources.
>
> The result is a very unfriendly statement on hist web site.
> Do you have
> a nice idea how to tell him that he just has been informed about a
> violation of the license?
Well, I'd say he miinterpreted what you wrote. However, CDRtools aren't
the only thing there that is an issue. A quick glance shows
* wget (no source, no mention of the right to obtain source/GPL)
* lots of stuff from sysinternals (IIRC this is personal use only - no
redistribution clause)
So I think another civil attempt would be in order, followed up by a
letter to the fsf about the wget (if the guy doesn't start to listen).
Rob