Hey guys, Spoke with the lawyers at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They told me to not post the code anywhere, not even in the public domain, since Facebook would still be able to retaliate. They also told me I'm in the wrong (they will not fight my cause), since my code in no way complies with Facebook's ToS nor SRR, and is therefore considered to be malicious.
'Twas a fun ride. Shutdown notes here: http://bit.ly/photojacker-shutdown Thanks for the help Karl! - Arthur // Lazyrussian <http://www.lazyrussian.com> - On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Arthur Sabintsev <[email protected]>wrote: > Karl, > > The program is now open source again, and licensed under the Mozilla Public > License. > I contacted SFLC, and forwarded all pertinent information to them. > > Let's see how this pans out. > > - Arthur // Lazyrussian <http://www.lazyrussian.com> - > > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Karl Fogel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Arthur Sabintsev >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Thanks for the email. I closed the license a few months ago, since I was >> > entering some acquisition talks, and I just wanted to play it safe. I am >> > more than happy to reopen it again, and have someone else or some >> > other organization publish it. To my knowledge, I think you are right >> about >> > the problem being between the user and Facebook, and not the developer. >> > That's like blaming Bram Cohen for inventing the BitTorrent system and >> > client (though what Bram did, is leaps and bounds beyond me, so I am in >> no >> > way comparing myself to him). I left a message with the EFF last night. >> I'll >> > look into te link you sent me, and contact the lawyer I've been in touch >> > with at Facebook again. >> >> I'm glad you're not giving up yet :-). It might be good to wait until you >> have a lawyer (either EFF or SFLC) before contacting Facebook's >> lawyers again. A good lawyer will help make sure you don't say >> anything you shouldn't say. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on 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.
