@pop_eye,
I'm afraid you mix-up ownership of a codebase with copyright.
If a codebase is published under GPL, you are allowed to fork it. At that point "their" codebase becomes "your" codebase, with which you can do what you want, within the boundaries of the GPL license. That doesn't say anything about copyright on the actual lines of code themselfs, that doesn't change when you fork.
The other advantage of having forks is that you can borrow code from each other. Many features in Enigma2 were introduced by PLi, and taken over by DMM. Sometimes with attribution (as required), sometimes not, sometimes code was rewritten to make it appear original. But at least there was some form of cooperation, and both parties benefitted. That worked for the original Enigma, and clearly DMM saw the benefit of that, otherwise they wouldn't have started with Enigma2 under GPL. Now it's one way, without attribution, and no way to check if copyright was violated since DMM refuses to make their code public.
And they must, the rules of GPL applies to their current version too, whether you see it as new release of the same code base or as derived work of the original codebase, in both cases that MUST have a GPL license too.
So you can call it whatever you want, if DMM never wanted other people to use the code, they shouldn't have chosen a GPL license for Enigma2 in the first place. But they did, and if that has turned out to be a bad business descision, so be it. They will have to live with that. It doesn't give them the right, even it they have all copyright (which they don't), to violate the GPL license.
I am not calling anything.
You have this in your repository:
http://sourceforge.n...b/gdi/accel.cpp
/*
Interface to the Dreambox dm800/dm8000 proprietary accel interface.
*/
Please tell me how this is relating to opensource software since you are clearly using this for all the supported boxes
and you are not considering its source ?
Do you want me to scrutinize all your sources ? Countless examples.
Now...let me be devils advocate.
DMM was made this software to sell dreamboxes. Do you agree ?
What are you selling ? Still not replied to my early message...
Please tell, and I will mind my own business
Edited by pop_eye, 31 October 2013 - 15:36.