stealing MAMBO for money (REBRANDING)

[SuperHero]

I recently came across this website which I think was built with Mambo. URL syntax and several logo's in the right places confirm my thoughts.

According to the Mambo License, the meta generator tag has to remain unchanged... I cannot find it in the source code of this guys work though!

Am I wrong or is this yet another copyright infringement.??

the site (still under construction)
http://www-30557.152.test.webnl.com/

proof
http://www-30557.152.test.webnl.com/...docs/style.css

http://www-30557.152.test.webnl.com/.../mambo_rss.png

http://www-30557.152.test.webnl.com/...mages/logo.png

well http://www-30557.152.test.webnl.com/...administrator/ is kind of a giveaway

the generator tag
<meta name="Generator" content="Meuwissenonline.nl | www.meuwissenonline.nl | All rights reserved." />

btw there is no Dutch Chamber of Commerce registration for meuwissenonline.nl


please post your opinion on this kind of behaviour. Am I too judgemental on this?

[denisp]

you're right, SuperHero.
The portal is mambo-made.
Removing the copyright of it, it's not so fair!!

[vancanneyt]

as part of the dutch community of dutchmambo we will look onto this problem.

[stingrey]

For the record it is perfectly legal to not display the visible copyright footer on your sites template.
In fact in 4.5.3 you will be able to do this without modifying the default templates by unpublishing the new 'footer' module.

Secondly it is perfectly legal to not show the meta creator copyright tag. All you have to do is not load mosShowhead in your template. Of course if you do this you lose some functionality that mambo uses within the mosShowhead function.

When the GPL states you cannot remove the copyright statements within the code, this means that if you open a mambo file you should always see the copyright statement at the top, e.g.:

<?php
/**
* @version $Id: index.php,v 1.46 2005/08/02 09:53:35 akede Exp $
* @package Mambo
* @copyright (C) 2000 - 2005 Miro International Pty Ltd
* @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU/GPL
* Mambo is Free Software
*/

There is NO way to know if this has been removed by simply viewing the HTML source of a web page. What the GPL references is the code source of the file.


I know you have the best of intentions, but please be very carefull about accusing people of breaching the GPL License.
If you suspect a breach of the GPL license please contact us through the proper channels - read below - and let our legal team investigate the problem.
http://www.mamboserver.com/index.php...d=49&Itemid=86

[SuperHero]

well... Stingrey... did you just tell me that what this guy did is okay?Or did you just tell me what IS okay (I already knew that )

Then I rest my case.

btw Maybe I'll adapt my way of 'selling' Mambo to my customers.

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