Hi Rico, Thanks for getting back to me on this. I'm not offended that you included the Floatbox code in your project. In fact, I suppose I should be bit honoured that you found it worthwhile. But I still don't want my code there because I don't want alternate distribution points for the Floatbox software. The reasons are quite simple. I want people to have to agree to the terms of use that they are presented with before downloading Floatbox from my site, and I want people to be getting the latest, and hence most capable and problem free, version of Floatbox. There is also the practical matter that the Floatbox code is not open source and so should not be part of nor posted in an open source project. The license terms for Floatbox state "Any and all redistribution of the Floatbox software...is prohibited...".
I have no interest in seeing your project shut down, and in fact I hope and trust that it can continue. My request is simply that you remove my software from your project code and distribution. Instead of including Floatbox directly, just tell folks that they need to obtain and install the Floatbox package from http://randomous.com/floatbox/download. I think this meets both our objectives. Cheers... ...Byron On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Gold Sky <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Byron, > I'm Rico, co-author of Easy 2 Gallery, that has been shut down recently. > I'm sorry for this delay reply, since I rarely check this email account. > > I started developing this project since the version 1.3.6. > While the viewer boxes of the legacy 1.3.6 and below versions were > unchanged, I started to update them without removing the key registration > (after it started to 1.4.x version -- a direct jump from 1.3.6), with some > thoughts: > > - I didn't change your original code > - I didn't sale my project, or made any kind of profit from sharing it. > - Your registration pop-up box for the unregistered script was not > deleted, so all user should have always payed your Floatbox if they wanted > to use it (you can test it by your self, because my script is *FREE*). > - By leaving that registration pop-up untouched, I thought *the > author(s) would be thankful *if someone buy the license because of my > project. Apparently not. > > A honest note: > Actually I've already moved this project to GitHub as well, as I started to > use that instead of Google Code. > https://github.com/goldsky/Easy-2-Gallery > Here is your Floatbox: > > https://github.com/goldsky/Easy-2-Gallery/tree/develop/assets/libs/viewers/floatbox > > Do you want me to remove your code on that as well? > Sure, what else do you want? > Dude, I've managed to develop this for years *FOR FREE*, and this shutting > down really makes me offended. > (Damn, I just realized that I didn't even mention about our own project's > license into the package). > Now, I want to have a clean reputation, I want to have the page back, > without that "Scheduled for deletion due to Violation of TOS." > What term should I follow? > > Sincerely, > Rico > PS: my regular email account is goldsky [a t] fastmail [d o t] fm, if you > want to email me directly. > > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 5:18 AM, byron <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am the author and copyright holder for the Floatbox javascript effect >> library. I notice that you have my software posted on the code.google site >> and included in one of your projects there. >> >> http://code.google.com/p/easy2modx/source/browse/trunk/assets/libs/floatbox/?r=2#floatbox%253Fstate%253Dclosed >> >> You do not have permission to use my software in this way and the Floatbox >> code is not open source. Please immediately remove all Floatbox source code >> from your project and from the code.google servers. >> >> Thanks for your cooperation... >> ...Byron McGregor >> > > -- 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.
