The developers are publishing what looks like complete source. It may be that they intend to give users a license to the code but are simply naïve of typical practices in publishing open source software. Have you tried contacting them to suggest that a LICENSE (or COPYING) file plus license headers in source code might help ensure that users have the intended license to modify and redistribute<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html> ?
-- Lucas On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:28 AM, sTraTo sPheRe < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi there. A few days ago I stumbled across a project being hosted on > Google Code which seems to be hosting code not licensed under an > OSI-approved license; the header comments state that it is "All Rights > Reserved" code. > > The link to the project is here: > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/ > > The project claims to be GPLv3, however the header comments in the > "web_upload" directories of each branch clearly contradict this. > > For example (note the @copyright phpdocs and the lack of @license phpdocs): > > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/source/browse/trunk/web_upload/index.php#8 > > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/source/browse/trunk/web_upload/includes/system-functions.php#8 > > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/source/browse/branches/sourcebans-2.0/web_upload/index.php#6 > > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/source/browse/branches/sourcebans-2.0/web_upload/bootstrap.php#6 > > Considering also how there is no LICENSE file, nor mention of a license in > the readme file here: > https://code.google.com/p/sourcebans/source/browse/trunk/readme.txt a > closer look should definitely be taken at whether or not this project should > be hosted in the first place. > > > Thanks for your time, and we open source devs appreciate what you provide > us. > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
