[Scummvm-devel] P800 port - what steps should we take now?

[David Eriksson]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:15, Max Horn wrote:
> YO folks,
> 
> the P800 port is still there, and it still violates our license by not 
> providing any source code for it. We have contacted the author several 
> times, respectfully asking him to fix this issue. He didn't, and he had 
> more than half a year.
> 
> Enough is enough. Today we got yet another bug report against this port 
> for which we don't have any source and hence no way to deal with bugs 
> in it.
> 
> I recommend that we now take harsher steps. E.g. doing what is 
> suggested here: http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html. We can 
> ask the FSF for support in the worst case. The first steps we should 
> take is to send him a threatening email, stopping to be as polite and 
> civil as we were in our previous mails.
> 
> Doing a whois lookup on his domain name "dreo.org" reveals this 
> information.
> 
> Registrant ID:GODA-02090705
> Registrant Name:Andreas Karlsson
> Registrant Organization:onlajn.nu
> Registrant Street1:Folkungag. 7
> Registrant City:Gothenburg
> Registrant State/Province:Not Applicable
> Registrant Postal Code:411 02
> Registrant Country:SE
> Registrant Phone:+46.314268
> Registrant Email:ns at onlajn.nu
> 
> I can't be 100% sure if that is really the same person, but the 
> information on http://dreo.org/p800/putty/ seems to confirm that the 
> escummvm "author" and Mr. Karlsson are one and the same. Maybe somebody 
> here from sweden could even call him (or maybe Endy or me could do 
> that; I live in the same timezone, after all).
> 
> 
> Note: I am *not* happy about taking more aggressive steps in this 
> matter, but we *have* to defend our rights, and if this guy doesn't 
> react to friendly requests, he leaves us no other choice, IMO.

As this guy is a Swede (and maybe a swede too, who knows?), I suggest
submitting a relevant news item on the Swedish news site gnuheter.com. I
don't have time to write something in Swedish myself, and I don't know
if they accept news items written in English, but here is the news
submit page anyway:

  http://gnuheter.com/submit.php

Also, here is some more contact information for him, including mobile
phone number and work e-mail:

  http://nic.nu/cgi-bin/drill.cfm?domainname=onlajn.nu

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