Re: [Scidvspc-users] Scid namebase issues in git / Project fallout

[Alan W. <a.c...@gm...>]

On 07/10/2014 06:12 AM, Fulvio wrote:
> I apologize to the users not interested in receiving these emails.
> I'll try to write as little as necessary but, unfortunately, it needs to
> be done publicly:
> - There may be people who are hosting scidvspc code on their site. They
> have the right to be informed that, even if unintentionally, are part of
> an illicit.
> - I needed proof that I informed Steven of copyright infringements and
> gave him the time to fix them before reporting the abuse to sourceforge.net
> - What Steven writes to me privately does not match what he says about
> me publicly
>
>
> Steve A wrote:
>>> Also when you start Scidvspc the user is presented with the message:
>>> (C) 2008-2013 Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...)
>>> (C) 2006-2008 Pascal Georges
>>> (C) 1999-2004 Shane Hudson
>>> This means that you own all the rights of every line of code that was added to > Scidvspc since 2008...
>>>      




>> This line indicates i have been the main contributor and project owner
>> for these 5 years.
>>
>>    
> Perhaps on Mars.
> You should try to do it with a most famous GPL project:
> Linuxvspc Kernel, (C) 2008-2013 Steven Atkinson
> You can claim that you started working on it in 2008, and it doesn't
> really matter if you copied their code for the past 5 years.
> I'm sure that Torvalds will not mind.
>

This is not a refutation to Steve's argument. Shane and Pascal put their 
copyright notices as they contributed to the project. So the right 
attribution is in place.