Any bets the whole fiasco started because a user sent either a question or a thanks to one of those addresses? :) -mj : > >> IT is a known fact that the "developers" of IPCOP simply changed the >> graphics of Smoothwall and re-released the OLD SmoothWall 0.9.9 >> binaries with the names of the authors, and project team members >> removed. Since that point IPCOP MAY have made some changes to the >> source code, but as far as I know, they STILL have NOT acknowledged >> the rightful authors of the original source code. >> >> I KNOW what the GPL means, and I agree with the GPL. What I don't >> agree with is using someone else's code base and stripping out their >> names and copyright information. > > Taken from the info page on my IPCOP box: > > Smoothwall > IPCop is based on the Smoothwall GPL version, v0.9.9. We are grateful to > them for both inspiring this product and giving us the codebase to work > with. Smoothwall was developed by: > > Founder and Project Manager - Richard Morrell (richard at smoothwall.org) > Development Team Leader and Author - Lawrence Manning > (lawrence at smoothwall.org) > Dan Goscomb - Architecture team leader, Core Developer & Perl Guru > (dang at smoothwall.org) > Paul Tansom - Worldwide Community Liason (paul at smoothwall.org) > William Anderson - Worldwide Online Team Manager & Webmanager > (neuro at smoothwall.org) > Rebecca Ward - Worldwide Online Support Manager (becca at smoothwall.org) > Bill Ward - US Support & Evangelist (bill at smoothwall.org) > Chris Ross - Chief Wizard (chris at smoothwall.org) > Mark Wormgoor - ISDN Lead Developer (mark at wormgoor.com) > Eric Johansson - US Team Leader (esj at harvee.billerica.ma.us) > Dan Cuthbert - Lead Security Manager (security at smoothwall.org) > Pierre-Yves Paulus - Belgian Team Leader and PPPoE guru > (pauluspy at easynet.be) > John Payne - DNS & Tech Contibutor (john at sackheads.org) > Adam Wilkinson - VPN Assistance (aaw10 at hslmc.cam.ac.uk) > Jez Tucker - Testing (jez at rib-it.org) > Pete Guyan - Tech testing & Input (pete at snowplains.org) > Nigel Fenton - Development and Testing (nigel.fenton at btinternet.com) Bob > Dunlop - The Guru's Guru & Code Magician (rjd at xyzzy.clara.co.uk) > > If you feel that IPCOP somehow did anything illegal by forking a GPL > project, I'd certainly like proof. This seems to be proof contrary. And > unless you're an IP lawyer, I'd recommend reconsidering charging anyone > of code theft. Richard Morrel sure can rant and rave, but that doesn't > mean what he says has absolute truth. > > -- > -Kevin Hinze > > rudie at rudie.net | rudie at sihope.com > hinz0047 at tc.umn.edu | http://rudie.net > > Democracy: two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for lunch > Liberty: a well armed sheep expressing his rights. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list --------------------- Jentges.NET, Inc. Voice: 763.783.3702 Cell: 763.370.1201 --------------------- _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list