As much as I hate the DCMA, and its abuses, this is not an abuse, but the sort of case it should be used for.
(I'm not a fan of GPL, either, but I support your right to choose it and enforce it.) But one thing you can do -- is post a comment, and regularly modify it (even a trivial mod) to keep it recent. Something along the lines of "This is an unauthorized buggy rip-off of EmailAlbum -- you might like that better." Normally I object to posting comments on competitor's products, but not in cases like this. Can I ask what your goals were in making it open source? On Aug 9, 6:14 am, Kevin Gaudin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am the developer of the GPL application EmailAlbum (http:// > emailalbum.googlecode.com) and the library ACRA (http:// > acra.googlecode.com) which allows application to send crash reports to > google docs spreadsheets. > > For a few weeks, my ACRA spreadsheet for EmailAlbum has been receiving > a few crash reports from a SDK which was not mine. Since it is open > source, no problem, this just indicated that someone did checkout the > project but was not aware of the ACRA config. > > This morning, the spreadsheet is receiving lots of crash reports from > an application that has just been published on the Android Market : > MailboxAtlas > > It appears to be a "forked" version of my current unreleased > developments on EmailAlbum, with lots of Force Closes and addition of > advertisements. > > If you go read the comments of other applications from this dev called > "social music"http://www.appbrain.com/browse/dev/social+musicit > clearly looks that this guy is trying to make money by publishing > slightly modified (and buggy) versions of open source software with > the addition of ads. > > I don't know if we can do anything to prevent this but I wanted to > share this with you... > > Kevin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
