Jon Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 6/7/01 11:42 AM, "Ceki G�lc�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This comes up from time to time and usually has me jump through the roof.
>> Good
>> willing contributors, take a piece of existing log4j code, modify or enhance
>> it, but remove the previous author's names. They then post their code as if
>> it was their own. Regardless of how much they modified the code, by removing
>> the previous author's names they are committing theft. I find this very
>> disturbing. What do others think? What can we do to combat this phenomenon?
>> Regards, Ceki
>
> There is a difference between doing this accidentally and doing it on
> purpose. If it is determined that it is done on purpose and the people who
> did it refuse to follow the license, then the Jakarta PMC should be notified
> and we can sick the ASF Legal team on the problem. Note, this seems like it
> would be a last resort type of situation. The best is to try to at least
> discuss with the villains (jokingly said) first and make sure that it was
> not intentional.
I remember decompiling some classes of a servlet engine back in 1997... That
was quite fun, too bad that the ASF wasn't there at the time, because the
"villain" was a _real_ d**k (but he's rich now, crap! :)
Pier
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