2006/6/11, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
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 ?
Damnit, is this up at Sourceforge too...
This is a strange story. Michael Paul Bailey contacted us long ago - http://www.freelists.org/archives/projectaon/09-2004/msg00061.html - saying he was developing a PalmOS reader, and I am pretty sure we replied back to him. I created a board at the PA forum for it anyway: http://projectaon.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=palmosreader
Then later he put up the reader and the converted books at his personal website, jinxidoru.com, saying that he knew it was technically illegal to have the books there, but that he had tried to contact us and never heard back. After this was reported to us, last spring I think, I tried to email him, twice, but never heard back. Later his website became unaccessible. Google still has it cached, but it seems that no new content was added after December 2004.
Now I see that he does have two blogs that he's actively writing to, and he's also posted to some PHP forums, so he is apparently still around.
-- Thomas