Hello! Hello!
I requesting urgent help from the Free Software Foundation and hackers at Savannah because at https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet a software is illegally distributed! I have notified the ZeroNet project that they are in violation of various licenses and it resulted of the termination of the GNU GPLv2 license. Soon after they started a voting at https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/2273 where they lied straight into the face of all contributors (they was silent about that the GPLv2 license is terminated) and asked contributors to change the license from GPL. I have contributed to this software and my pull request was closed and than the code I sent was merged without giving me credit for my contribution. More than 14 GitHub account is suspended because I was reported license violations, termination and demanded the repository to replace the license with GPLv3+! According to my best knowledge once your release your software under GPL there is nothing can stop users to keep distributing it under GPL. Since ZeroNet is released under GPLv2 (and that license is terminated permanently) this doesn't terminated our rights to keep distributing ZeroNet under GPL. Because it would be illegal and in some cases criminal to distribute ZeroNet under GPLv2 I'm legally obligated to replace the license with GPLv3. Also GPL requires to give credit to contributors and it is disgusting and shameful if someone copy your code and claim credit for it by merging it in his name! Not to mention I archived the https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/2273 url various times with archive.org and you can see they even manipulated the voting, which by the way voting about totally nonsense! They was also discussed to replace the libraries but the issue remains, once you received the software under GPL you are able to distribute it under GPL and because it would be illegal and criminal to use a GPLv2 license everyone is required to use a GPLv3 or a GPLv3+ license on the software! I noting here that most contributors agreed with me that GPLv3+ should be used, but than @imachug @filips123 and a Hungarian neo-Nazi Tamas Kocsis (aka @shortcutme and @HelloZeroNet) manipulated the voting and pushed for GPL-3.0-only. In reality only 1 person voted for GPLv3-only and more than 60+ for GPLv3+! Recently, the owner of the repository (who is a criminal copyright infringer also) in this comment https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet/issues/2273#issuecomment-564123671 proposed to relicense ZeroNet to MIT! I demand the Free Software Foundation to take action and contact GitHub and GitLab to take down the ZeroNet repository! I will continue to distribute my copies of ZeroNet under GPLv3+ and nobody can stop me in this specially not after that I was no credited at all for my contributions! They can relicense it to MIT or Apache 2.0 disregarding contributors and GPL terms of conditions but I will not! I kindly ask the Free Software Foundation and hackers at Savannah to take action!
