[projectaon] Project Aon's license violation at Sourceforge? (PalmOS reader project)
- From: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Project Aon <projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:03:51 +0200
Hi there,
I've recently stumbled upon this Sourceforge project:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lonewolf-palm
This is the project description:
Lone Wolf PalmOS Reader [1]
PalmOS reader and character manager for Joe Dever's Lone Wolf series
as provided by Project Aon.
This project was started november 2004 and has only released files in
december 2004. Admins are jinxidoru (M. Paul Bailey, sourceforge member
since march 2002) and zaedyn (Josh Menke, member since january 2006). It
claims that the license its contents are distributed is the GPL.
However, this project distributes the following files:
[ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=123741 ]
- Palm OS reader (lonewolf-0.1.prc)
- Lone Wolf books converted to PDB for use in the reader:
lw-books_1-5.zip lw-books_6-12.zip lw-books_13-15.zip
From what I understand, all those zip files are in violation of the Project
Aon license, as they are the XML books converted to PDB and distributed
outside of Project Aon.
Is the project aware of this? Should steps be taken to have those zip files
removed from Sourceforge ?
Regards
Javier
[1] After speaking with Marc Fisher he told me this is *not* the Palm OS Reader
he wrote (and is mentioned in the forums).
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