Human Rights Activist via Discussions among Savannah Hackers, open subscription <savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org> writes:
> 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! It's great that you are pushing for GPLv3+! In general, licensing questions like this should be sent to licens...@fsf.org. -- Ian Kelling | Senior Systems Administrator, Free Software Foundation GPG Key: B125 F60B 7B28 7FF6 A2B7 DF8F 170A F0E2 9542 95DF https://fsf.org | https://gnu.org
