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Hi All,

I wanted to raise this topic for some time, it's a quite sad one 
(especially on such a nice sunny Friday as today) so
I was holding it off, but lately Miguel Angel Marchuet again copied 
work from Harbour without giving any credit whatsoever to original 
authors. Around last month I've also found copy/pasted text from my 
own Harbour Changelog entry on the commercial version of xhb 
changes pags. Related e-mails thanked above changes to all those 
wonderful *xhb* developers. I'm not one of them (still banned), not 
wanting to be one, but all this doesn't mean they are not making 
benefit of these works, and even earning money out of it. So, IMO 
the least thing is to mention Harbour's or authors' name (even if it 
happens to be me) name (spelled correctly) when advertising such things.


Current practice is more than misleading for both paying or non-paying 
users of these products and quite insulting for those developers who 
actually spend months with features and see them like this. Since this 
is simply an unmanly thing and probably doesn't break any legal license, 
I'm considering changing all my licensed files with a new item requiring 
mention of my name when using my work, but before I do I'd like 
to sync my views with others.


[ I don't even mention that among all the Harbour developers names 
on xhb developer page, mine is accidentally left out. Quite strange 
if we consider that 30% of all commits were done by me (vszakats/vszel). ]


To make it clear I have no problem xhb copying my work or even 
selling it (as far as they comply to license), but I'd like to see my 
name appearing when appropriate.


Worth mentioning that I've asked this from Miguel and Patrick, so 
far without any results (besides Miguel correcting one entry with 
my misspelled name, which isn't very polite).


If you have any opinion on this, please add it here, before doing such 
action it'd be also nice to hear some xhb opinions.


Brgds,
Viktor