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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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