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  1. Matt's TraceRoute by jrumney · · Score: 5, Informative · on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prove My ISP Slows Certain Traffic?

    A good way to find where a connection is being slowed is to use MTR, or on Windows WinMTR. It's a combination of ping and traceroute that can show where the network becomes slow, or error rates become high between you are the server you are using.

  2. Appnor MSP, a hosting & cloud provider by doperative · · Score: 1 · on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved]

    "Say hello to the Bad Guy! That's me, Dragos MANAC .. I decided to take the blame and do the mature thing: revert to GPL v2 " ...

    Well at least your company Appnor, got some publicity out of the issue ..

  3. CEO Proimises to Revert Back to GPL by ryanisflyboy · · Score: 4, Informative · on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved]

    The CEO has promised to revert the product back to GPLv2:

    http://winmtr.net/slashdot.html

    "Instead of dealing with this, I decided to take the blame and do the mature thing: revert to GPL v2. By the end of the week (January 16 2011) the updated sources (stating the new license) will be on Sourceforge for all to download and further enhance."

    Please update the story. It seems like Dragos is at least trying to operate with good faith and fix a potential mistake.

  4. Re:Abandonware? by Cylix · · Score: 5, Informative · on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved]

    Actually based on their reply at http://winmtr.net/slashdot.html it makes more sense....

    Quoted directly from the link,

    "Dear visitor,

    You have reached us through a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.

    The story goes like this:

    "A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"

    Our response:

          1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
          2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
          3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years. The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code.

    Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.

    The license changes we made are justified by the fact that we own the copyright for the code, nothing else. A good reason was the lack of interest for the project in the OSS community.

    We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.

    Thank you for reading the full story.

    Dragos MANAC
    CEO Appnor MSP S.A."

    With this information it is quite well within their rights assuming they are the owners the source code and have no outside contributions.

    Thus you could still obtain a copy of the code which was released under the GPL and fork it. However, since no one touched it in a while I really doubt there is much interest.

  5. One of the links in the summary goes to response by paiute · · Score: 1, Informative · on Hosting Company Appears To Be Violating the GPL [Resolved]

    http://winmtr.net/slashdot.html

    Dear visitor,

    You have reached us trough a Slashdot story that is a bit malvolent.

    The story goes like this:

    "A web hosting provider called Appnor has recently moved the network diagnostics utility WinMTR off of SourceForge, and is now claiming the program to be a closed source, commercial application (it was previously made available under the GPL). I emailed the current maintainer of the original mtr utility about this, and have been informed that this event most likely constitutes an overt GPL violation, as it is presumed that WinMTR contains mtr code. Appnor claims that they have the right to do this, as there have been no external contributions to WinMTR in over ten years. I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think copyright law works that way"

    Our response:

          1. Our company has rights over the entire source code, bought from the original maintainer. We are the current maintainers. There is NO other code from contributors.
          2. The whole thing is written from scratch for Windows. No MTR code is used.
          3. The binary is available for free. We just thought nobody cared too much having it Open, since there were no contributions in almost 10 years.

    Again, we are not trying to violate GPL and we will make sure there are no licensing issues. In the unlikely situation in which there are some licensing issues, we will make all the required changes/updates to the product, in good faith.

    We think the license change is within the boundaries of GPL. We are double checking this with our lawyers.

    Thank you for reading the full story.

    Dragos MANAC
    CEO Appnor MSP S.A.