Re: [Scidvspc-users] Copyright infringements / GPL violations

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

> Last year Steven wanted to erase Scid code: I was shocked and I
> repeatedly said that it was senseless.
> I did not understand why he did not want to agree to do a proper merge,
> when I was willing to do all the work and after that leave him the
> complete management of the project.

A code merge is impossible. It was discussed then, and i have no wish
to reopen this.
It was all instigated by Alex Wagner.

> Now, i saw this commit (in how many places I have been vilified without
> knowing it?):
> http://sourceforge.net/p/scidvspc/code/1920/
> and dawned on me a disturbing thought.

I have been a little hard on your project.
I made the above change because of the above sentiment , and moreover
i feel your code is now maturing. For a long while it has been fairly unstable.

> Right now it is very easy to see Scidvspc copyright infringements.
> For example in Scid there is a file tcl/utils/win.tcl and i can easily
> see (git blame) that most of the lines have been written by "pgeorges"
> in 2008 (+98 lines of my code).
> In Scidvspc there is an incredibly similar file, also called
> tcl/utils/win.tcl, using the same variables names, and that was entirely
> written by "stevenaaus" (which then holds all the copyright rights).

> and that was entirely  written by "stevenaaus"

How do you reckon that ? I have appended no (c) to the file.
The same file in Scid git has no (c).
I have a hunch the origins of this file are from the Tcl wiki, which has a very
lax copyright, and may be why Pascal never added a (c) line.

I have said alrady, if you wish to assert your copyright more strongly,
please advise me of the files, and i will include a copyright F.B for you.

Please do not spam the mailing lists anymore, but feel free to contact me.

Steven