[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14685: Copyright Notice Tainted

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#14685: Copyright Notice Tainted
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 Reporter:  hakre            |        Owner:          
     Type:  defect (bug)     |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  highest omg bbq  |    Milestone:          
Component:  General          |      Version:  3.0.1   
 Severity:  blocker          |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:  has-patch        |  
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Changes (by hakre):

  * keywords:  => has-patch
  * status:  closed => reopened
  * resolution:  invalid =>


Comment:

 Until this has been properly sorted out - which should have been done in
 the first place - I'm still willing to revert the noted changes and don't
 see my issue in this ticket fixed.

 It's not my fault that others start to discuss here, I always stated that
 this ticket is about a change that needs a revert. And it's not my fault
 either that the project let pass the chance to clarify such at a time it
 would have been possible to do so.

 For me as a contributing developer and author, I have not given consent to
 change the context of the license file which has been introduced in
 [13516] by #10835. As this change can be seen as a licensing related one,
 the copyright owner of the work must have been given consent to such a
 change.

 This did not happen.

 To my best knowledge the add of the GPL version number has been proposed
 (opening a ticket and providing a patch) by Niall Kennedy (niallkennedy)
 in September 2009. The change got committed into the Wordpress codebase by
 Andrew Nacin (nacin) on 28 Feb 2010.

 The license file and the reference to it has always been the location we
 as free software user referred to prior using the code.

 The unauthorized change of the license reference that slipped in does not
 only violates the rights of the copyright holders, it has the potential to
 tinker with the users rights. This change needs to be reverted immediatly
 to no longer extend the ongoing violation.

 Affected files on wordpress.org are:

  * http://wordpress.org/latest.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.1.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.1-IIS.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.0-IIS.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-mu-3.0.tar.gz
  * http://wordpress.org/wordpress-mu-3.0.1.tar.gz

 and their zip version.

 I urge the project to stop the violation now.

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