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#2 Apparent breach of copyright
It appears that Maarten Veerman has directly copied my PDF page counting Delphi code (source here: http://angusj.com/delphitips/pdfpagecount.php which I've recently modified and significantly updated) and applied his own copyright notice without my permission and without any attribution to me as the original author of the code. If the maintainers of this pdftk4all work wish to retain my copyrighted code within pdftk4all, I request that I am properly attributed as the author (including a link to my website) of the relevant PDF page counting portion of the pdftk4all code.
Regards
Angus Johnson
http://angusj.com
Angus,
True, your excellent code is being used in PDFTK4All.
Since the code is made available on your website as a “Delphi Tip”, I assumed that permission was not needed to use the code. In my opinion a tip is something you give; a form of free advice. Also, no licensing information is provided on your website.
Nevertheless, this all doesn't mean I should not have been more careful when using the code, and of course I should have added comments in the code with pointing to your name and website. On the other hand, a “Thank you” to you has always been present in the “About” box (as can be seen in FormAbout.dfm).
In the FormMain.pas file, where your portion of the code is being used, I now address you as the author of the code. I also point to your website, and state the you own the copyright to that piece of code.
(I'm currently trying to get CVS access to sourceforge, so I can upload the new FormMain.pas file. It's been a few years since last development, so I need to install some software in order to get the new file in the repository. Hopefully the new file will be there tomorrow. When the new file is in de CVS, I'll also release a new SOURCE package.)
I hope this is all the information you needed, and I hope the actions I've taken are enough to please you.
Maarten Veerman
Hi Maarten.
I understand and am sorry there is/was some ambiguity about the licensing of my tip.
There has been a copyright notice at the bottom of all my tips all along, but I appreciate it is in very small letters and could easily have been missed and accept that this was an innocent misunderstanding.
Thank you for addressing my concern.
Regards
Angus