10 Nov
2004
10 Nov
'04
12:10 a.m.
Filip Navara wrote:
Thomas Weidenmueller wrote:
Now I got the binaries too. Not that they only misrepresent the origin
of ReactOS, but they also did the same with QEMU. It looks like they got
the 0.6 release, renamed QEMU to EmuPC and changed the copyright strings
in it.
- Filip
Filip Navara wrote:
True, it's illegal to misrepresent the origin and remove copyright
information. I haven't seen the released binaries, so I reacted only
based on the information in the mails... AFAIK they actually don't violate the GPL as
long as they will send
the source code on request (see GPL section 3). This doesn't mean
that we shouldn't mail them and clear out the situation though...
But i really doubt it's legal to remove copyright information.
Remember, we still own the copyright, we just permit others to use
the sources as the license says. Which, as I understand it, implies
they must not remove copyrights, neither from binaries nor from
sources. We don't have access to the sources but they changed all
copyright information in the file properties of the binaries. What
they do is not just insolent (by not giving credit to the real
creators) but also illegal.