...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...
Certainly. The dialogue is going, with a friendly phone call with someone from the company who wrote the software. Totally ok about educating.
Would the foundation write such a letter, or do you want me to do it? If so I'd post the key points here before writing.
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...
You're right about the link, so maybe we should just ask for a notice on their website indicating that ASF software has been redistributed without the required licences, and that this will be fixed in the next release?
I'd also add a note about contributions and bug fixes in the letter, bug this goes more for the company who developed the software than for the county who's only distributing it.
-Bertrand
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