Hi Matt, I wrote two mails to your company in 2008 (qmailadmin@inter7.com and k...@inter7.com) and got _no_ response about that. So your company should have known about that. I also talked to Gabriel Ambühl from Switzerland. He thought that picture came from Inter7.
Here are copies of these Mails: ----------------------- 2008-11-05 14:30 CET qmailadmin@inter7.com Hello! Yesterday I got a letter from getty images, UK. They told me I am using an image from their database without having paid for it and I have to pay 1250 Euros now for that and remove the image. I was really shure not having used any images not taken by myself or not being bundled with any software I installed. So I read on to see which image they point at. It was the image shown at the login-screen of qmailadmin, which still was the original image that came with that package! That little postbox with the flying 'E' (http://mail.inter7.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin). I'm a little bit confused now. Does anyone still have that image online or know, if it was licenced to Inter7? Thank You Dennis ----------------------- And on 2008-11-27 23:30 CET k...@inter7.com Hello Ken, a few days ago I wrote on the qmailadmin-mailinglist that getty sent me an invoice over 1200 Euros (ca. 1500 US-$) because I used one of their images (the mailbox-image at the qmailadmin-Loginscreen) an my website. But I think noone takes this serious. Do you know if there exists a legal license for that image from getty for the qmailadmin-project? Or do you know who put this image in the project? In the changelog is nothing about that. If getty sues me in germany it would be very important for me to know who put this image in the project and if he had the proper license from getty to do this. If this were the case i could save a lot of money. Thank you for your help! Dennis Körner ---------------------- --- Netzwerge Hamburg e.K. Wandsbeker Zollstraße 13 22041 Hamburg Tel.: 0 40 - 20 00 35 62 Fax: 0 40 - 20 00 35 61 i...@netzwerge.de www.netzwerge.de Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRA 104698 -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Matt Brookings [mailto:m...@inter7.com] Gesendet: Freitag, 14. Januar 2011 22:23 An: qmailadmin@inter7.com Betreff: Re: AW: [qmailadmin] copyright notice -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/14/2011 03:15 PM, Dennis Körner wrote: > Yes it was me who wrote that blog entry. And I'm surprised that someone of > Inter7 is respondig to this now. When I wrote to Inter7 and to this list some > years ago. Noone of Inter7 was interested in that issue. They are _really_ > ignorant to still distribute this image in an open source package maintained > by them. > As I had contact to the original author of this image (Eric Pearle) it is > _clear_ that Inter7 has _no_ licence for this picture. Because this image is > under exclusive licencing by getty. And getty does not licence this picture > for redistribution. > If you ask me: Inter7 is knowingly bringing users of qmailadmin in legal > difficulties. And they are also ingorant about that. This is really hurting > OS. We have not knowingly distributed any copyrighted material without license. Currently, it is our understanding that the image was added to the qmailadmin login template by someone who held a license to use the image. We will be looking into this. My own personal advise would be to blank the image on your personal qmailadmin login page until we have verified whether or not the image will be removed from the package. Thanks! - -- /* Matt Brookings <m...@inter7.com> GnuPG Key FAE0672C Software developer Systems technician Inter7 Internet Technologies, Inc. (815)776-9465 */ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0wvsgACgkQIwet2/rgZyyjeQCgjWRub3tIUDeCp9HbwtcmP4Oj fgUAnjgvXGZ1/3HUW+rGAcOUgxhCQ3ek =eldq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- !DSPAM:4d30c10532711395415866!
