On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM, <favadi.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Vào 12:37:53 UTC+7 Chủ nhật, ngày 04 tháng ba năm 2012, afterlastangel đã > viết: > >> Dear Google Code moderator, >> >> Recently, unikey.org has been attacked and change the download link to >> a fake project. >> We can check the official announcement here http://unikey.org/index.php?* >> *langset=eng <http://unikey.org/index.php?langset=eng> >> and the report of scam project here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/** >> trac/sourceforge/ticket/24601<http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/24601> >> >> And the vietnam-unikey project is hosting download for unikey.vn. They >> also claim that "Unikey.vn is not official of Unikey / Unikey.org (by >> Pham Kim Long)". >> >> I understand GPL project that everyone have legal permission to copy, >> distribute and/or modify it. But In vietnam-unikey project they >> provide they just provide the binary of unikey software and not giving >> access to the source code. There is also no mention where to download >> the source code of these software. Therefore they have violated GPL. >> >> From the Google Code policy: http://code.google.com/** >> projecthosting/policy.html<http://code.google.com/projecthosting/policy.html> >> >> "4. Impersonation or Deceptive Behavior: Do not use our products to >> impersonate other people." >> >> Although they are warning user that they are not the author or relate >> to Pham Kim Long. But unikey is very famous in Vietnam that almost >> everybody that use computer are using this software. So it's very >> dangerous if it were used for criminal. >> >> "12. Generic File Hosting: Google Project Hosting is meant for the >> facilitation of software development and the storage of artifacts >> related to software development. Storage of data that is not relevant >> to software development is not allowed without the express permission >> of Google." >> >> More over, The purpose of vietnam-unikey project justing look like a >> hosting place for download binary software (http://code.google.com/p/ >> vietnam-unikey/downloads/list<http://code.google.com/p/vietnam-unikey/downloads/list> >> )**, that is not relevant to software >> development. >> >> Despite the author claim that unikey's license is GPL, I could not find > the source for 4.0 version.
I also couldn't find the 4.0 source. I did find a nice "please don't ask me for the source" note, though, so that was considerate. I've taken down the project for now. -Nathaniel -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to google-code-hosting@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-code-hosting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
