Dear Google Code moderator,

Recently, unikey.org has been attacked and change the download link to
a fake project.
We can check the official announcement here 
http://unikey.org/index.php?langset=eng
and the report of scam project here: 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/24601

And the vietnam-unikey project is hosting download for unikey.vn. They
also claim that "Unikey.vn is not official of Unikey / Unikey.org (by
Pham Kim Long)".

I understand GPL project that everyone have legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify it. But In vietnam-unikey project they
provide they just provide the binary of unikey software and not giving
access to the source code. There is also no mention where to download
the source code of these software. Therefore they have violated GPL.

>From the Google Code policy: http://code.google.com/projecthosting/policy.html

"4. Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior: Do not use our products to
impersonate other people."

Although they are warning user that they are not the author or relate
to Pham Kim Long. But unikey is very famous in Vietnam that almost
everybody that use computer are using this software. So it's very
dangerous if it were used for criminal.

"12. Generic File Hosting: Google Project Hosting is meant for the
facilitation of software development and the storage of artifacts
related to software development. Storage of data that is not relevant
to software development is not allowed without the express permission
of Google."

More over, The purpose of vietnam-unikey project justing look like a
hosting place for download binary software (http://code.google.com/p/
vietnam-unikey/downloads/list), that is not relevant to software
development.

Best regards,

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