Dataone Usage Finder

To the author of DUF:

First, many thanks for your software. It has been useful to me and I
presume to many others. However, as a conscientious OSS consumer, it is my
responsibility to give you the following notification:

You are hosting your software on SourceForge, which provides software
project hosting only for open source projects, as said at:

http://sourceforge.net/docs/C01/en/#oss_inquiries

That same page also clearly says that:

We require that:
Projects that provide binary software releases also provide source code for
those releases via the File Release System.

It is evident from the page:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156825&package_id=175
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That you have not released the source code corresponding to the binary
versions after version 1.3 of your software. This is in clear violation of
SourceForge's Terms Of Service outlined at

http://sourceforge.net/tos/tos.php

which states that SourceForge "offers online resources for open source
software development" only.

Further examination of the source files of version 1.3 (which are the
latest available sources) indicates that you are using the GPL as the
license for your project. If you are no longer using the GPL as the license
of your project after version 1.3, please clarify as to *which* open-source
license you are using, and provide the source code according to that
license.

This request/notification is made to you by an end-user of your software as
per the requirements at

http://sourceforge.net/docs/C01/en/#oss_inquiries

that the administrator of the offending project be given a notification and
seven days time to respond to the issue.

Today is Monday, 2007 Oct 15. If by Monday, 2007 Oct 22 we receive no
response in this regard we may prefer a report with the SourceForge net
authorities.

Since your application has an option to store passwords, if you do not
release your source code, end users are liable not to trust what your
application does with those stored passwords. It is potentially a security
issue to them. Hence it is in your own interest to quickly release the
source code to your software.

With many thanks, and earnest request to take this notification in the
right light:

Shriramana Sharma.