What do you do about [L]GPL violators of your code
Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 05, 2004 12:49 AM
I have a substantial quantity of Open Source code (some GPL, some LGPL) that I amintain and publish for the environmental modeling community. What should I do about the *persistent* problem of license violations, involving the following:
* Stripping out the the license from
re-distributed code;
* Stripping out attributions from
re-distributed code; and
* Modifying and re-distributing the result
without specification of what mods were
made,and by whom.
In particular, is it appropriate for me to pursue charges of academic misconduct against the perpetrators? (The academic meteorology community is notoriously bad for this kind of plagiarism issue...)
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What do you do about [L]GPL violators of your code
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 05, 2004 12:49 AM(some GPL, some LGPL) that I amintain and publish
for the environmental modeling community. What
should I do about the *persistent* problem of
license violations, involving the following:
* Stripping out the the license from
re-distributed code;
* Stripping out attributions from
re-distributed code; and
* Modifying and re-distributing the result
without specification of what mods were
made,and by whom.
In particular, is it appropriate for me to pursue
charges of academic misconduct against the
perpetrators? (The academic meteorology community
is notoriously bad for this kind of plagiarism
issue...)
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