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jaswdr / dinesh-barcode

Backup project from original dinesh/barcode package
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Copyright Infringement #1

Closed nicolaasuni closed 3 years ago

nicolaasuni commented 8 years ago

This project is using source code copied from the project https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF originally hosted at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcpdf/ but all original notices about author, copyright and license were removed or replaced.

The first commit on the copied PARENT project is indicated as 5 June 2014, so it can be safely compared against TCPDF version 6.0.083 released 29 May 2014 (https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF/tree/6.0.083):

The following files appears to be almost verbatim copies of the original ones, with the exception of the legal notices removed (author, copyright and license):

The original code is released under the GNU LGPLv3 license and copyrighted by Nicola Asuni - Tecnick.com LTD, but none of this information is present in the copied files. https://github.com/tecnickcom/TCPDF/blob/6.0.083/LICENSE.TXT

The options to remedy the infringement are:

  1. immediately delete the project - this seems the best option as this project is not adding anything to the original files.
  2. if the license is compatible with GNU-LGPLv3, immediately replace the infringing files with the original ones, or reinstate the original notices (author, copyright, license);
  3. immediately delete the infringing files and use the new external library https://github.com/tecnickcom/tc-lib-barcode (originally based on the same TCPDF code but with tons of bug fixes and improvements).
jaswdr commented 8 years ago

@nicolaasuni this repo is only a fork of the original dinesh/barcode linked in packagist because the repo was deleted. I'm not suppose to deleted this repo,I use it in some of my projects, I'll analyse your files and before that I decide what to do, I understand you, I'm a open source enthusiast and know how this is important.

regards

jaswdr commented 3 years ago

License details were added to the required files