On 1 June 2010 05:55, Mikel L. Forcada <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jim, Apertiumers:
>>>
>>> It installs and runs in Wine.
>>>
>>> From the output of winedump (below) it's clear that it does not link
>>> to Apertium: it's a wrapper around Apertium. No GPL violation here.
>>>
>
> He is distributing compiled Apertium code in an executable. He should
> provide the sources for that code. Clear GPL violation.
>

Granted, that's not the aspect of the GPL I was looking at.

But... you have not established that there has been a violation of the
GPL, let alone a 'clear' violation: from what you said, you looked at
the website and saw no source download available - that's only one of
4 options for the distribution of source provided by section 3 of the
GPL.

For the record, WinXLator does not comply with any of those 4 options:
the installer does not contain the source code (which would satisfy
3a), nor does it provide an offer to provide the source code (3b), nor
does it provide information about how to acquire the original source
code (section 3c - but this only holds if (as is very likely the case)
that the source code has not been modified).

WinXLator also does not comply with section 1 of the GPL. It also does
not comply with the fundamentals of copyright - all copyright notices
(for the various components of Apertium, for CG, and for Cygwin) have
been omitted.

-- 
<Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
<Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.

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