Wednesday, January 2, 2008

GPL Violation by I-Doser - Still not Fixed

According to http://uazu.net/sbagen/i-doser.html , the I-Doser software had violated the GPL and paid fine for it. But the latest version 4.5 which is available since then, which can be downloaded at http://www.download.com/I-Doser/3000-2054-10396009.html is still violating GPL.

The author however, claims that the new version is not, as he is providing the source code with the application, but I have found that the included source is of the older version of SbaGEn (http://uazu.net/sbagen) DLL, which is different from the newest version, which is available in the package. The newer version, which has pause and resume capabilities, has only been provided as binary (.dll) and no source has been included.

This has been reported to http://gpl-violations.org , which requires to take appropriate actions in the future.

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