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by chippyhawkeye 2874 days ago
Hi, I just sent you an email, I searched my inbox and spam and didn't see anything from you. Not sure what happened there. We're working on getting the GPL and attribution issues all sorted, that was ignorance on my part versus anything willful. Sorry about your photos and such, if it makes you feel any better I did it to myself at one point as well...

-Chip from Wahoo
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kingosticks 2874 days ago
Chip, while it's great to hear you are working on this, I'm struggling with the idea of someone being ignorant to this. Or do you just not know where your software comes from?
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rhencke 2874 days ago
It's honestly very common people are unaware.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/11/08/gpl-enforcement.html

> I'd say that 98% of the violations I've ever worked on since 1998 have been unintentional and due primarily to negligence, not malice.

(author of the above statement led FSF's GPL enforcement for many years)

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kingosticks 2874 days ago
Fair enough. At least this one is being fixed!
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