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How To Fight International OSS License Violations?

Posted by Cliff on from the please-seek-professional-legal-assistance dept.

sirshannon asks: "Frans Bouma's LLBLGen is a free, open source code generator that he licensed under the BSD license so that anyone could use it in any way, as long as they gave him some credit. Now Codease has released a product that apparently uses his code for 90% of the functionality but doesn't bother to attribute it to him. Frans lives in The Netherlands, Codease is in Singapore. What is the correct way to pursue this?"

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  1. Learn your lesson next time by duffbeer703 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you don't want people to profit from your work, don't release it as BSD.

    If you are so vain that you are willing to spend thousands of dollars to sue to have your name placed on something, have fun.

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    Conformity is the jailer of freedom and enemy of growth. -JFK