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Re: GPL violation in Licq? (Was: Licq Hebrew Patch Contributor)



Why a violation ? as Licq is also licensed under the GPL, I don't see any
violation. or does the GPL prevents two GPLed projects from sharing code ?
no as far as I remember.

If its about giving credit where credit's due, then I'm sure that the nice
folks at licq.org will gladly insert any copyright notice you feel like
adding, once gently prompted.

Oded

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Aloni" <karrde@callisto.yi.org>
To: <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Cc: "Jacob Shapiro" <jacob@yashi.logicolor.net>; "Oren Held"
<mar_garina@opinionz.cjb.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 2:01 PM
Subject: GPL violation in Licq? (Was: Licq Hebrew Patch Contributor)


>
> About a year ago I have contributed a patch to X-Chat, containing a
> function which reverses hebrew. The main function in the patch contained
> was named strhebpatch, which takes a source string as an argument and
> reverses it, storing it in a destination address.
>
> A year later, while casually browsing the source code of licq, I noticed
> that the function has propagated to it. Unfortunately, while being
> credited in the X-Chat ChangeLog (1.5.3), I forgot to add a credit line
> in the code itself, so whoever propagated it, has wrongly took the full
> credit for it.
>
> I refer to this E-Mail, written by Jacob Shapiro, the one who has
> contributed the hebrew supprt to licq:
> http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/Linux/maillists/01/07/msg00085.html
>
> Also, this FAQ:
> http://www.iglu.org.il/faq/cache/120.html
>
> I don't remember if I have GPL'ed that code back then, but I am positive
> that the code is at least GPL'ed under the X-Chat GPL.
>
> --
> Dan Aloni
> da-x@gmx.net
>
>
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