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




out of curiousity - why is it GPL violation? isn't licq published under a
GPL license? and isn't X-chat the same? when you contribute code to a
GPLed project - your code becomes GPLed (can't help that) and thus may be
copied into any other GPLed code. the credit issue is quite different, and
is not related to the GPL - its a matter of courtesy - as far as i know.

guy

On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, Dan Aloni wrote:

> 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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