joongpark Posted December 19, 2002 Posted December 19, 2002 I saw this somewhere...but just want to know if it is legal to do this. This company submitted Oscommerce to a software site as open source software...when you download it, copy right to Oscommerce is still intact but they added readme.txt file with installation information and their advertisement for hosting and customizing the software for charge. I was confused about it since GPL is very hard to interprete.
Jan0815 Posted December 19, 2002 Posted December 19, 2002 Funny to see this question coming from someone that doesn't mention osCommerce on his own demo site that he is advertising here in our forum :-). Remember one of our forum rules: The forum is for information exchange only. Commercial advertising is not allowed. The rules are quite simple. If they have only added a readme.txt I do not foresee any problems. But if they have removed other files (like the LICENSE or INSTALL file) there will be a problem. HTH You can't have everything. That's why trains have difficulty crossing oceans, and hippos did not adapt to fly. -- from the OpenBSD mailinglist.
Harald Ponce de Leon Posted December 19, 2002 Posted December 19, 2002 This company submitted Oscommerce to a software site as open source software...when you download it, copy right to Oscommerce is still intact but they added readme.txt file with installation information and their advertisement for hosting and customizing the software for charge. What site is it? Depending on how the wording is, it may be fraud making people think they are the creators of osCommerce. BTW, I've removed the link in your signature as its advertising. , osCommerce
joongpark Posted December 19, 2002 Author Posted December 19, 2002 hehe... I am thinking about opening a site that installs and customizes Oscommerce. I surfing around for competitor and came upon that site...I must have visited about 50 sites so can't remember it's address. I don't think I was advertising anything when I posted...I am not even open for business and I know the forum rules too well to advertise here. I think even people who are doing business related Oscommerce have right to post here as long as rules are followed. I am newbie to Oscoomerce and too many good programmer's woking here so I would be very dumb to come here and adverise. This would be the last place I would do that. :? You said I wrongfully removed Oscommerce copyright message from my demo site. I thought I am ok to remove it when I change look of the catalog page. I did not touch copyright info on admin side and all of the php files. Let me know...don't want to break any rules.
Jan0815 Posted December 19, 2002 Posted December 19, 2002 You said I wrongfully removed Oscommerce copyright message from my demo site. No, I did not say that. I only noted that you complained about someone that did not give proper credits to osCommerce and you sourself also removed the credits to osCommerce :-) I found that funny. No offense meant. But it would be very interesting for us to know who is doing this. You said that it is in a README file, so I guess you have that file at hand. Could you forward it to one of the team members so we can verify GNU/GPL compliance? Please do not post it here in public. Thanks for your support. You can't have everything. That's why trains have difficulty crossing oceans, and hippos did not adapt to fly. -- from the OpenBSD mailinglist.
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