Hi, On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Viktor Szakáts <harbour...@syenar.hu> wrote: > I wanted to raise this topic for some time, it's a quite sad one > (especially on such a nice sunny Friday as today) so > I was holding it off, but lately Miguel Angel Marchuet again copied > work from Harbour without giving any credit whatsoever to original > authors. Around last month I've also found copy/pasted text from my > own Harbour Changelog entry on the commercial version of xhb > changes pags. Related e-mails thanked above changes to all those > wonderful *xhb* developers. I'm not one of them (still banned), not > wanting to be one, but all this doesn't mean they are not making > benefit of these works, and even earning money out of it. So, IMO > the least thing is to mention Harbour's or authors' name (even if it > happens to be me) name (spelled correctly) when advertising such things. > Current practice is more than misleading for both paying or non-paying > users of these products and quite insulting for those developers who > actually spend months with features and see them like this. Since this > is simply an unmanly thing and probably doesn't break any legal license, > I'm considering changing all my licensed files with a new item requiring > mention of my name when using my work, but before I do I'd like > to sync my views with others.
IMHO this is your right to do that but see below. > [ I don't even mention that among all the Harbour developers names > on xhb developer page, mine is accidentally left out. Quite strange > if we consider that 30% of all commits were done by me (vszakats/vszel). ] IMHO you can just report it to Enrico Maria Giordano who manages the page, and he will add your name. > To make it clear I have no problem xhb copying my work or even > selling it (as far as they comply to license), but I'd like to see my > name appearing when appropriate. +1 > Worth mentioning that I've asked this from Miguel and Patrick, so > far without any results (besides Miguel correcting one entry with > my misspelled name, which isn't very polite). IMHO this lack of results is a sad accident. > If you have any opinion on this, please add it here, before doing such > action it'd be also nice to hear some xhb opinions. IMHO every such case can be easily resolved by communicating with the person who forgot to mention your name. Adding a requirement to mention your name won't change anything by itself. -- Ph. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ xHarbour-developers mailing list xHarbour-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xharbour-developers
