Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Licence Break

[Dan Kuykendall]

Alex Borges (lex) wrote:
> I saw the page and yeah.... theyve renamed the product Interage
> Groupware. This breaks international copyright laws, we dont know if it
> would break the GPL. Ill check with some brasilean users as to what
> organisms akin to the FSF exist in Brasil.

Why is this a copyright violation? The code is not tied to the name 
'phpGroupWare'.

> We need to find out if they are providing a hsoting service branded
> Interage Groupware or if they are actually calling the project
> that...this would be blatant copyright violation.

No it wouldnt. They can call the project/product anything they want. 
Same as axisgroupware has done.

Seek3r

> El lun, 30-09-2002 a las 08:44, Jean Everson Martina escribió:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> >         I don't know if this the right place to post, but I've found here in 
> > brazil one
> > company using phpgroupware, as one of their products, without mentionig anything
> > about the phpgroupware project. I think this is against the phpgroupware's GPL
> > license.
> >
> > plese take a look:
> >
> > http://www.interage.com.br/produtos/produtos.htm
> >
> >
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