Last year Steven wanted to erase Scid code: I was shocked and I repeatedly said that it was senseless. I did not understand why he did not want to agree to do a proper merge, when I was willing to do all the work and after that leave him the complete management of the project.
Now, i saw this commit (in how many places I have been vilified without knowing it?): http://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/1920/ and dawned on me a disturbing thought. Right now it is very easy to see Scidvspc copyright infringements. For example in Scid there is a file tcl/utils/win.tcl and i can easily see (git blame) that most of the lines have been written by "pgeorges" in 2008 (+98 lines of my code). In Scidvspc there is an incredibly similar file, also called tcl/utils/win.tcl, using the same variables names, and that was entirely written by "stevenaaus" (which then holds all the copyright rights). It's even mentioned on Scidvspc website without any credit to the original author: "Finally have a docked windows feature. It's a damn complicated thing, but i am fond of it". * IF THE ORIGINAL CODE FROM SCID NO LONGER EXISTED, IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO PROVE NOW WHO IS THE REAL AUTHOR OF THE CODE * I really hope that I'm just imagining things, but to be on the safe side, I then FORMALLY INVITE THE SCIDVSPC PROJECT TO: - RESPECT ALL THE COPYRIGHT RIGHTS OF ALL THE AUTHORS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SCID PROJECT - RESOLVE EVERY COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND GPL VIOLATION. Fulvio Benini ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open source business process management suite built on Java and Eclipse Turn processes into business applications with Bonita BPM Community Edition Quickly connect people, data, and systems into organized workflows Winner of BOSSIE, CODIE, OW2 and Gartner awards http://p.sf.net/sfu/Bonitasoft _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
