Re: [Hampshire] Unscrupulous salesmen...

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Author: Hugo Mills
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On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 08:44:29PM +0100, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> I came across this thread this afternoon, and thought that it was worth
> bringing to everyone's attention. Essentially, an unscrupulous company has
> taken the Freship project, removed all references to the GPL, and put their
> own name on it, and are now selling it.
>
> http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/design-software/again-still-29732.html
>
> I think it's worth remembering that the software that we use and develop can
> still be pirated.


Worth introducing the authors of the software in question to Harald
Welte and the GPL-Violations people[1]?

Hugo.

[1] http://www.gpl-violations.org/

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