[Kstars-devel] Possibly copyright infringement of source code currently used in Kstars

[Khudyakov Alexey]

В сообщении от 21 декабря 2009 02:04:44 PJ Naughter написал:
> First let me introduce myself, my name is PJ Naughter and I am a
> professional Windows developer who releases quite a bit of Open Source C++
> source code (mostly Windows based but some Unix code also) at my web site
>  at www.naughter.com.
> 
> Someone has just emailed me, saying that it looks like someone specifically
> "Vipul Kumar Singh" from the comment at the top of the source code module
> has pretty much blatantly ripped of some of my source code, thrown away my
> copy right details and released it as his own under the GPL license
> agreement in Kstars. This is really not on and I request that immediate
> action is taken to remove this code from Kstars.
> 
> I think there can be no doubt that this person blatantly ripped off my
> source code. I've spent over a year working on this codebase and this
> misrepresentation of code like this is completely unethical and underhand.
> The top of each of my source code modules includes copyright details /
>  usage rights as well as in html documentation included in the source code
>  download, but it looks like this person knowingly deleted these details
>  and misrepresented the source of the implementation. Please let me know
>  what the next course of action will be.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Indeed. Plagiarism and copyright infringement two in one. Most ungentlemanly 
of him. 

You license is obviously not GPL compatible so there is in fact no choice. If 
you request deletion it will be deleted. As for Vipul Kumar Singh. I will 
think badly of him.