Andrew Saunders wrote:
If they want to leave off the credits, they can pay me for the privilege, or live with only the credit they deserve for their work. People who can't live with my credits on work they sell to others should pay.On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 22:46:24 +0400 Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:One could argue that if the "thief" had been unable to re-brand the code, they never would have used it. If they had to have a prominent notice advertising "We did not write this, Hans Reiser did" (only 24 times as long) every time their application started, they wouldn't touch the code with a barge pole. Thus, the code is now in places where it wouldn't have been before. This means greater penetration, albeit by the back door.
There is no need to change the license, the companies violated the GPL, they didn't just strip the credits. The need is to enforce the license, and nobody is bothering. UC Santa Cruz University lawyers are not very interested in earning their living..... I reported it to them some time ago....Look at how many companies ripped off squid.And yet, to the best of my knowledge, Squid have not changed their license to prevent this recurring in the future.
-- Hans