[Skim-app-develop] Possible license violation?

[Chris Adams]

WWF is running a promotional campaign at http://www.saveaswwf.com/
based on a file format which is PDF with the no-print flag set. Their
application a very thin wrapper around a bundled Skim.app but lacks
the credit normally required by the BSD license, either in the
application or on http://www.saveaswwf.com/en/legal-notice.html; its
license implies that the entire app is their IP.

https://gist.github.com/505d2f56523433bb4d42

Has anyone talked with them?

Chris

[Christiaan Hofman]

Post by Chris Adams
WWF is running a promotional campaign at http://www.saveaswwf.com/
based on a file format which is PDF with the no-print flag set. Their
application a very thin wrapper around a bundled Skim.app but lacks
the credit normally required by the BSD license, either in the
application or on http://www.saveaswwf.com/en/legal-notice.html; its
license implies that the entire app is their IP.
https://gist.github.com/505d2f56523433bb4d42
Has anyone talked with them?
Chris

I hadn't seen that, thanks for noting. I'll write an email to them, because they're clearly in breach of our BSD license.

It's a weird "app" though, sure it won't get much traction, this most definitely won't be a successful campaign this way.

Christiaan

[Chris Adams]

Post by Christiaan Hofman
I hadn't seen that, thanks for noting. I'll write an email to them, because they're clearly in breach of our BSD license.
It's a weird "app" though, sure it won't get much traction, this most definitely won't be a successful campaign this way.

I definitely agree - I was actually curious just what they were doing
(they don't even publicize the fact that it's just PDF) and was
somewhat surprised to see Skim there.

Chris