wrt U of California violating the GPL...
David Turner
novalis at gnu.org
Fri Aug 30 16:56:43 UTC 2002
OK, I'll mark this as resolved.
On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 07:43, Jerome Alet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It seems that the University of California San Diego which violated
> the GPL has decided to finally stop using my JAXML software in newer
> releases of their ENV software. The 0.9.4 you can download from
> their website, published on August 29th, doesn't use my GPLed library
> anymore, so they still use their own non-free license.
>
> Older versions doesn't seem to be available for download anymore.
>
> I'm still not officially informed of this, I've just checked their
> website.
>
> However their website doesn't have a single word nor apologize about
> their passed illegal behaviour, and coming from a University I find
> this **VERY** impolite (I also work in an University).
>
> They violated the GPL and my rights for at least nine consecutive
> months, so I expected at least a word from them on this subject.
> They only tell users of previous versions "please replace it with
> the current version".
>
> Don't you find this "disturbing" ?
>
> Anyway thanks to ALL who helped to solve this case in a pacific way !
>
> The GPL will not go to court this time :-(
>
> Thanks again to all.
>
> Jerome Alet
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-Dave Turner
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