Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We will evaluate the project and determine if it is violating our Terms of Service.
Nathan On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Robert<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I sent an email about this to [email protected] two weeks ago, > but did not get a response yet. So I am approaching you this way. > > The MediaCoder project (http://code.google.com/p/mediacoder/) is a > closed source, commercial (adware) project that exploits Google Code > services for hosting their downloads. > > MediaCoder started as an open source project on SourceForge a few > years ago, but they changed to a closed source license and did not > release source code anymore for at least the last two years. They > never released any source code on Google Code. > > The project is listed as being released under the Mozilla Public > License (MPL), but that’s incorrect. They used a proprietary license > called MediaCoder Public License (also abbreviated MPL, presumably to > intentionally misguide people) for quite some time. Recent releases > carry a “Broad Intelligence EULA” with them which is quite restrictive > and as far from being an open source license as it can get. > > They have recently been sacked by SourceForge for this and have now > turned to Google Code for hosting their downloads. I think that this > project is hurting the reputation of Google Code and of open source > software in general, so I ask you to not allow them to host their > stuff on your site any longer. > > Regards, > Robert > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" 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/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
