Re: Not following the spirit of the licence?
No I don’t know him, and IANAL (although playing devils advocate). I appreciate appreciation as much as the next man, and if they snaffled the whole project to a complete Amazon product with only crediting him in the readme.txt it’s a dick move - but if that’s all the licence calls for, megacorp lawyers are going to uphold the letter of the licence and nothing more. Realistically I would have expected Amazon to make him an offer he couldn’t refuse on moral principle...... but again, if he licenced it in a way that allows what they did.... the letter of the law was respected and legally no comebacks possible and The online (less tat) store legal beagles know this and played it strictly by the rules.
Now, do the rules need changing? Very possibly yes, but it’s too late for this one. May it be a warning for others ?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
