[wp-hackers] Copyright violations by plugin in the WordPress plugin directory.

[Joost de Valk]

On Jun 27, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Jerry Johnson wrote:

> At first, my thought was "get over yourself". So they based theirs  
> on yours.
> Big deal.
>
> That was before a look through the two codebases.
>
> It was a direct lift with no changes at all for that section.
>
> It is only a portion of the whole, but it is bad form. Attribution and
> discussion with your should have been part of their path.

Exactly, I'm quite fine with them making a better / more complete  
plugin, that's why I released it under the GPL in the first place and  
uploaded it to wordpress.org. I only want them to attribute it  
correctly.

Best,
Joost