Brent W
Well-known member
@BamaStangGuy did ******* make money off of your work with advertisements? The people upset here are people who have been made victim. Resource developers in general.
I never once said you had no reason to be upset.
@BamaStangGuy did ******* make money off of your work with advertisements? The people upset here are people who have been made victim. Resource developers in general.
Not sure if Jon did or not but if it was me in *******'s shoes I would at least offer Jon some form of compensation, he's made thousands from Jon's work, is it really fair ******* gets to keep that money?
If you rob a bank and get caught you don't get to keep what you stole, same as if you stole a DVD or a TV or even a phone, you won't get to keep it you have to return it or pay compensation.
Then why was it in the add-on? Just for fun? Nope.The code is actually unnecessary in the majority of the addons as most addons do not have dependencies.
Then why was it in the add-on? Just for fun? Nope.
That costs.Lazyness
Now that I am home I can look at the post again - https://xenforo.com/community/threa...xf-vn-and-copyright-issues.91524/#post-886630 Apparently was actually in all of his addons according to Jon. The code is actually unnecessary in the majority of the addons as most addons do not have dependencies.
It is not some pile of code that generated heaps of money for *******. If this was a court case and it hinged on those lines of code alone, while guilty there would be no big settlement coming. You wouldn't have much of a case at all. In fact this is only slightly better than what got Oracle lauighed out of court when they went against Google for Google stealing source code.
It's not even a part of any of these addon's day to day functionality. Now if Jon was upset about this it would be one thing. But really the only value that incident has now is its part of the large collective of incidents of the same kind of theft.
Just before someone denies the above quoted fact,******* has copied/stolen example his main site design is using a function taken from a wordpress theme
Here is the original for that file https://github.com/pederan/Parallax-ImageScroll/blob/master/jquery.imageScroll.jsChecking *******'s site now that copyright notice is gone, https://*******.com/js/*******/Portal/js/jquery.imageScroll.js
Just before someone denies the above quoted fact,
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The class name "hentry" is used mostly in wordpress themes / styles / whatever you call it.
https://wordpress.org/ideas/topic/what-the-****-is-a-hentry
Edit: looks the word is censored. replace all the four * with f word. Or just google it.
Okay, addressing the whole "shares" thing. First of all, if he only owned partial shares of a website, he wouldn't have the power to unilaterally shut the website down. The majority of the shares holders would have to agree to shut it down.
Secondly, there is NO WAY share holders of anything would agree to shut a money making business down. If he owned a majority stake in the website, then he would still have a fiduciary responsibility to keep the website running and profitable. Shutting the website down would in no way help any of the other owners of the website.
Therefore, I can argue that the idea of him owning a small part of the website is BS. He owns the entire website and he has shut it down because it does help his public image problem.
Here is the original for that file https://github.com/pederan/Parallax-ImageScroll/blob/master/jquery.imageScroll.js
I'm wondering if the other copyright was because this had been distributed via a file that had been part of a wordpress theme? Either way no reason to take the copyright out as I am pretty sure this is usable as long as you aren't... trying to claim it as your own, sell it or redistribute... lol
Hell his whole theme looks like a damn word press theme.
I'd be very wary of the fact that ******* has shown any linkage whatsoever to HKDA, as two of the most widely spread pirate versions of my addons traced back to HKDA email addresses (and the payments were also charged back).
Well not shocking, if you can provide that proof to the administrators here I am sure it would help resolving this case against ******* faster.
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