Re: getmail6 - GPLv2 license violation

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 08:52:08AM +0100, Roland Puntaier wrote:
> On Sun 21Oct31 17:09, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > For future reference, to anyone distributing "getmail6", removal of copyright
> > notices is not permitted by the license.
> > 
> > There's an "and" in here that should have been "any".
> > 
> > Charles
> > 
> > ----- Forwarded message -----
> > 
> > Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:57:51 -0600
> > From: Charles Cazabon
> > To: Roland Puntaier <[email protected]>
> > Subject: getmail6 - GPLv2 license violation
> > 
> > Hi, Roland,
> > 
> > There's a licensing problem with your fork of getmail.
> > 
> > In the file here:
> > 
> >    https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/blob/master/getmailcore/__init__.py
> > 
> > ... you have removed my copyright statement
> 
> I looked into the history and found out how it happened by mistake.
> At commit
> https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6/commit/75734e022836d27c854fff34e3de36988cf4f213
> blurb() had the same information, so it was redundant.
> But later blurb() was moved without reinstantiating the notice in the docstring.
> 
> > As a courtesy, I am asking nicely that you immediately restore any copyright
> 
> Done.
 
Thank you for doing so.

Yes, I speak as human and community member to fellow community members, to mankind.
Pun on kind intented.


> > However, I'm a nice guy, and as I say, I am giving you the courtesy of giving
> > you one chance to correct this license violation.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> ----
> 
> So, it seems you have access to my fork.
> Why don't you pull?
> It has always been a pull request.

And invites will always be invites.
[1]
 
> I maintain this fork for Python 3 support
> until you have time to pull in Python 3 support.

Under which name will the fork live?

Currently under https://github.com/getmail6/getmail6
Please make it https://github.com/getmail6/NAME_OF_THE_FORK

 
> Regards, Roland

Groeten
Geert Stappers

[1] some text explaining that invites
    are NOT demands, orders, instructions, commands or such alike.
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