Hi All, I wanted to raise this topic for some time, it's a quite sad one (especially on such a nice sunny Friday as today) so I was holding it off, but lately Miguel Angel Marchuet again copied work from Harbour without giving any credit whatsoever to original authors. Around last month I've also found copy/pasted text from my own Harbour Changelog entry on the commercial version of xhb changes pags. Related e-mails thanked above changes to all those wonderful *xhb* developers. I'm not one of them (still banned), not wanting to be one, but all this doesn't mean they are not making benefit of these works, and even earning money out of it. So, IMO the least thing is to mention Harbour's or authors' name (even if it happens to be me) name (spelled correctly) when advertising such things.
Current practice is more than misleading for both paying or non-paying users of these products and quite insulting for those developers who actually spend months with features and see them like this. Since this is simply an unmanly thing and probably doesn't break any legal license, I'm considering changing all my licensed files with a new item requiring mention of my name when using my work, but before I do I'd like to sync my views with others. [ I don't even mention that among all the Harbour developers names on xhb developer page, mine is accidentally left out. Quite strange if we consider that 30% of all commits were done by me (vszakats/vszel). ] To make it clear I have no problem xhb copying my work or even selling it (as far as they comply to license), but I'd like to see my name appearing when appropriate. Worth mentioning that I've asked this from Miguel and Patrick, so far without any results (besides Miguel correcting one entry with my misspelled name, which isn't very polite). If you have any opinion on this, please add it here, before doing such action it'd be also nice to hear some xhb opinions. Brgds, Viktor
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