On Feb 24, 2004, at 3:21 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
I cannot speak for the ASF on legal matters, but personally I don't think legal action is appropriate as they have immediately reacted in the right way, so in my view a "fair compensation" in terms of fixing the problem + public notices would be ok.
Resolving these things in a friendly fashion is always best - especially when there is no intentional violation and little
or no harm is done.
If you need a formal hand - just ask - but in general what we do in these cases is to write a gentle letter; get a dialoge going, point out the license and then help the other party to come into compliance. The key aspect of this is helping and educating.
In addition to fixing the problem in a new release of their software, my suggestion would be for them to include a visible notice on the main web page where the software is found, with a link to a page that explains the situation (and apologies to the ASF?).
That would be a nice thing to do - and if they feel really really guilty - we are always open for donations, patches, bugfixes or some lovely french translations of doc's - but first I would focus on ensuring that going forward the issue is resolved; the last thing we want is getting bug-reports about *their* app from the tax-payers of CH in our bug tracker :-) due to such a link.
Dw -- Dirk-WIllem van Gulik, President of the ASF.
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