[Mageia-dev] stardict 3.0.3

Fri Feb 3 12:16:50 CET 2012

Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 15:45 +0100, Romain d'Alverny a écrit :
+> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 23:29, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > Unfortunately, that's not really the opinion of the sourceforge lawyers.
+> 
+> Where is this opinion documented? Are there source/reference/details
+> about said copyright infringement reports? 
+
+That's what I ask, did someone checked with sf why it was removed.
+
+> (without which the claim
+> does not stand) I could not find on the old site, neither on the new
+> one, neither through a quick Google search.
+
+http://stardict.sourceforge.net/
+
+"The original StarDict project has recently been removed from
+SourceForge due to copyright infringement reports. Most of the files
+were lost with the demise of the project. The project has re-emerged
+here since then, though the legal issues may never have been resolved.".
+
+Based on this, I assume that it was removed by sf, and I also assume
+that their lawyers decided it because that's the only logical reason. 
+
+Another user ( in the sens sf user ) cannot ask to remove ( or at least,
+not without sf approval, hence we go back on remove by sourceforge
+people ).
+
+Someone asking for copyright claims could ask, but again, this would
+have been checked by sf lawyers.
+
+Technically, someone owning the project could remove it, but since
+"most of the files were lost", I assume that the removal was not
+intended. So either this was done by someone else, ( hence back to
+previous cases ), or the owner managed to remove the files from his hard
+drive, his backup, sourceforge website and sourceforge backup in one go
+( so unlikely to be done by error ). hence my conclusion.
+
+In any case, there was copyright claims serious enough to shutdown the
+project, meaning that someone filled the claims. And I think that's
+serious enough to warrant a proper verification.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+