Contact the author and ask for them to provide you with the source code to their derivative work, per the GPL terms (and you may want to be more explicit of which version of the GPL you're using).
If they decline, file a DMCA notice with Google, since they will be in violation of your copyright on your source code. If they do publish the source to their application, though, and so long as they are in compliance with the other GPL terms (again, varies by which version of the GPL you're using), then what they are doing is legitimate, in terms of software licenses. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Kevin Gaudin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am the developer of the GPL application EmailAlbum (http:// > emailalbum.googlecode.com) and the library ACRA (http:// > acra.googlecode.com) which allows application to send crash reports to > google docs spreadsheets. > > For a few weeks, my ACRA spreadsheet for EmailAlbum has been receiving > a few crash reports from a SDK which was not mine. Since it is open > source, no problem, this just indicated that someone did checkout the > project but was not aware of the ACRA config. > > This morning, the spreadsheet is receiving lots of crash reports from > an application that has just been published on the Android Market : > MailboxAtlas > > It appears to be a "forked" version of my current unreleased > developments on EmailAlbum, with lots of Force Closes and addition of > advertisements. > > If you go read the comments of other applications from this dev called > "social music" http://www.appbrain.com/browse/dev/social+music it > clearly looks that this guy is trying to make money by publishing > slightly modified (and buggy) versions of open source software with > the addition of ads. > > I don't know if we can do anything to prevent this but I wanted to > share this with you... -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy _The Busy Coder's Guide to *Advanced* Android Development_ Version 1.9 Available! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
