ZK has been around for a long time, it's more of a meta framework
(integrates with dojo, sau, etc..)

I wouldn't be too worried about them passing stuff off as their own that
they didn't create.

I'd call what just happened here a mixture of FUD and jumping to
conclusions.

"Move along now, nothing to see here..."

On 3/8/07, Andrew Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Mar 8, 2:44 am, "Richard Quadling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > In looking just at their prototype.js code, the level of similarity is
> > extremely high. They've made a few changes to obfuscate the code, but
> > nothing to make it unreadable.
> >
> > I'm sure this is against all sort of fair usage and licensing /
> copyright rules.
> >
> > Stay away until the full copyright is returned. And even then.
> >
> > If they can't give credit where credit is due, then who knows who they
> > will blame for bugs!
>
> In fairness to them, the licensing is only stripped from the
> ShrinkSafe'd version.  If you download the full ZK source, there are
> uncompressed versions of Prototype and Scriptaculous which have intact
> copyright info.
>
> I don't really know how I feel about this, but it fails to exceed my
> Rage Threshold.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
>
> >
>


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