serious problem with asterisk in GoAutoDial : ERROR[2630]:

[williamconley]

They have always been there.

Are you saying VICIDIAL in big white letters was ALWAYS there? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it has been added recently. I don't know. But I am happy to see you're trying to resolve it if you did recently add it. If not ... then how are these people making these mistakes?

I will pull out an Old GoAutoDial .iso and check, and apologize if the results are as you say.

Nothing wrong here as long as they acknowledged where it's based from. That's GPL. They can't definitely claim it as theirs but they can change the logo and anything else as long as they make the code available to the public.

Would you appreciate it if someone simply took your version, CHANGED the logo to a different one (with their name on it!) but left all your other changes intact. Of course the trunk installed would be for THEIR minutes instead of yours. Using your screen design, security additions, OS interaction menus.

Would that be GPL enough for you?

I asked if you would appreciate it. Are you saying you'd be "OK" if the changes indirectly made lots of people believe that a new usurper had written your code? It's your software, and GPL, maybe you would be. To each his own.

In case you've forgotten, the board is made up of different users contributing answers and solutions out of their own free time. There are no obligations and no commitments. Even no assurance that everything will be perfect.

In case you're wondering, yes if that happened, I'd point that poor client to your board just like I do now. Then I'd help them when they got there until YOU showed up. Luckily noone has done that yet (of which YOU are aware, of course). Or have they?

I'm not sure I get what that means at all. In fact, the point you made was the same one *I* made. I'm just here giving advice to people for free and trying to get them to the right place to get that help. Often they are confused about who wrote which part of the software, and unnecessarily so.

My point the whole time is that when you began modifying the screen, the word "Vicidial" was the only name visible along with the "VERSION X.X.X" notice, in no way confusing. When you finish, having added GoAutoDial, people regularly think that it is "GoAutoDial Version X.X.X". Putting the word "Vicidial" next to the version would resolve this.

My comment was that if someone did the same thing to YOUR software, I'd send users to your board, too, just like I do for Vicidial presently. I'm not sure how you interpreted that to mean that I forgot that this is about free contributions. Lost me entirely.

[gardo]

I'm OK with it if they acknowledge that it's based on our sytem and it complies with GPL/AGPL.

I asked if you would appreciate it. Are you saying you'd be "OK" if the changes indirectly made lots of people believe that a new usurper had written your code? It's your software, and GPL, maybe you would be. To each his own.