Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: peter-swing Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:36:48 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <15372322.181.1335299218185.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbqb5> <30295463.494.1335447028982.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcnj6> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Q8iLBgEeBCpnpld/ZguDQZC3hPxtpS3zLnDek3/jlJ371lfgxPio6EeJZd+jnAdv1iDIYyR2V2GpLtGzMJDeC4Iy2uwd3lQudTAKeqfz6U4wazNWBq+cOl3XC7kaPrP1 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:36:50 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="RB+umwEumMBIWH1SeVrM+DOnKDavME1S9MIpiYNx4awfekcniEk2c0ZfOr2DiEeZmTO7DbLz6HDjNTdIhrrelY91a52dv4Hjc82RSBM14/ZJOZlnJ5KJsDk/wMF259H+"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <30295463.494.1335447028982.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcnj6> Cancel-Lock: sha1:7/P/mqyum8aX3HLDT5pI5nv5cp8= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13920 Peter Cheung wrote: > peter-swing is open source project, open source project plagiarized another open source project? It definitely appears that way from what people report. Plagiarism is plagiarism whether from open source, to open source or whatever. It's plagiarism to pass off a play of Shakespeare's as your own, is it not? Furthermore, unlike the Shakespeare example, if the accusations be true then the "peter-swing" spammer violated copyright, which is legally actionable, beyond plagiarism. Wasn't it Tivo or Cisco or someone like that that got in trouble for using Linux and not distributing source code or acknowledging the copyright or such? -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg