On Wed, Jan 16, 2002, Allan Bressler wrote: Hi Allan,
> to you that Bluefish is using the Plucker browser and distributing it as > their own, or more appropriatly, not giving Plucker it's credit. Giving credit is no obligation for code released under GPL, so we can't really "force" them to do that ;-) Of course, one could always think that considering the fact that they haven't written this app they would (out of courtesy) give credit where credit is due. > My only hesitation in sending this is that you have an agreement with > Bluefish alowing them to do this. There is no such agreement. However, as long as they follow the license (that includes to release the source code for all their modifications) they don't need any agreement. Still, visiting their web site I haven't been able to find the source code so far. I will contact them. Actually, I assume they already know since I think at least one of their developers are subscribed to this mailing list ;-) > The best way to show this is with an example, visit > http://www.mercuryguide.com/dn/dnews.html and download the application > for first time users. Guess I should contact the publisher and request either that they provide the source code for download or a link to where the source code can be downloaded (everyone distributing a GPL application in binary format must also provide the source code.) > After installation you will see that the browser used is Plucker down > to the navigation icons. All the forms data from our viewer is still included in "their" viewer. They even kept the version number (1.1.12) ;-) > But don't feel that special, I think they did the same thing with the > ZLib library. The ZLib library is distributed under a different license. > Please let me know your thoughts on this. Thanks for telling us. I have been in contact with two companies about license "violations" related to Plucker in the past and they have both fixed the problems when told about them, so I will give Bluefish the benefit of the doubt (they do say that it is free software in the About box.) Best regards, /Mike
