#2 kindly release your source code

[Shriramana Sharma]

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=175069

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.