This was posted earlier on the forum of a guild that was stupid enough to post my compile in a directory of their guild website.
I am seriously tired of seeing my compiles turn up in places like that. Thanks go to TurkReno for digging around in the DMCA and GPL to figure this out.
I am seriously tired of seeing my compiles turn up in places like that. Thanks go to TurkReno for digging around in the DMCA and GPL to figure this out.
TurkReno said:Your server is thus charged with being in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act by violating the General Public Licence that is used for MacroQuest2 by distributing a copy of MacroQuest2 from a private source and "author", hereforth known as TheZ, who has stated that you are not authorized to distribute this program from your website.
The "program", thus stated as MacroQuest2 compiled for www.redguides.com shall henceforth be known as such. From hereforth, you are also hereby charged with Theft of Intellectual Property and are requested to remove all traces of MacroQuest2 that have been compiled, distributed from and paid for from RedGuides.
Since the GPL Agreement is not included, the following lines are subject to you, the distributor:
1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's
source code as you receive it, in any medium, provided that you
conspicuously and appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate
copyright notice and disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all the
notices that refer to this License and to the absence of any warranty;
and give any other recipients of the Program a copy of this License
along with the Program.
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices
stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
parties under the terms of this License.
c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively
when run, you must cause it, when started running for such
interactive use in the most ordinary way, to print or display an
announcement including an appropriate copyright notice and a
notice that there is no warranty (or else, saying that you provide
a warranty) and that users may redistribute the program under
these conditions, and telling the user how to view a copy of this
License. (Exception: if the Program itself is interactive but
does not normally print such an announcement, your work based on
the Program is not required to print an announcement.)
Remove said program or possible legal action will be taken upon this site as it is not an authorized distributor of said program.
-TurkReno