Just to clear up the chain of events here, so that people dont add more to this than is actually there:
1. I wrote an article about violations because a lot of people were talking about that. I also have people I know personally who have sent emails to pilotlogic asking to have their code removed. They are angry because pilotlogic havent event bother to respond. When people ask on their forum, they are simply deleted - as was also the case of Peter Dunne which is the administrator over at Delphi Developer (facebook). He was kicked from their forum only last night for asking the question.
2. After the article the author of the Sparta Project decided to do the right thing. He published and made the source available - and has shown that he is a not only a good programmer, but also a very good guy. Sadly pilotlogic continues to ignore users.
3. Yesterday I was told that someone was "talking shit behind your back" on the pilotlogic forum. I enter the forum and find a rather colorful description of myself - and also a very insulting conspiracy theory where i am secretly working to destroy Lazarus and FPC. Which is just incredibly stupid since two of my own products are made with FPC/Lazarus. I am also promoting FPC to everyone and intend to donate my entire codebase to FPC/Lazarus, including parts of the tech behind Smart Mobile Studio.
I respond just as colorful as the poster -- which naturally seem a bit shocked to find himself face to face with the person he just thrash-talked.
3. Another user, which has sent email after email to pilotlogic asking to have his code removed, joins in. He threatens to file a lawsuit because he is sick and tired of being bullied by them.
4. Pilotlogic respond by posting my home address, telephone number and office.
5. I remind them that it's illegal to post personal information as such without consent. This is standard european law. But they utterly refuse to even reply.
6. I inform them that I will contact their ISP monday if this continues. They can delete my personal information - and we can talk this over in a proper way.
7. I post the name and code-case from the other user, which has threaten with a lawsuit. At which I am kicked and banned, and the thread is deleted.
8. I google the name of the author and find a lazarus/fpc forum link (here), click around inside the forum, and come across this thread.
And that's it. There is no conspiracy, no evil secret plans, no negativity and no war.
The author in question has been contacted, I have asked him to post his case here, so that we can be done with this "evidence" silliness once and for all.
And now this prince of darkness is making brownies for his kids (or minions i guess that makes them)
NOTE: There is presently a poll about this on Delphi Developer, Peter has simply written:
"I have just checked the codebase for CodeTyphon, a quick check and found the ACS files still do not have proper license and copyright information The original files are available at
http://sourceforge.net/p/lazaru…/…/HEAD/tree/components/acs/ and it is LGPL but clearly licensed and copyright"
So if you think it's just me making a storm in a glass of water (as we say in norway), that is not the case. I dont make shit up.
Remember when I told you that Embarcadero was using FPC? No one believed me until Rozlog came on this forum and verified it. Then everyone was shocked.
I dont like about things like this, that would just be stupid.