[FWD: RE: [Ebxmlrr-tech] License issue with our customer]

[David RR Webber (XML)]

Team,

Can anyone provide some help for Ladislav here?

Seems like once again corporate lawyers are trying to trample on open
licensing...

Thanks, DW

-----Original Message-----
From: Ladislav Urban [mailto:ladislav.urban at webswell.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 12:34 PM
To: ebxmlrr-tech
Cc: Sacha Schlegel; Vladimir Alexovic
Subject: [Ebxmlrr-tech] License issue with our customer

Hello all,
we have recently successfully completed integration project (May 2,
2006) based on our integration package Webswell Connect. This package is
under Academic Free License and uses Ebxml Reg/Rep and other components
associated with Freebxml.

Our customer decided to charge us with copyright breaking issue at the
court. The claim is that all open source software is copyrighted
property of the customer because he payed our company to fix the bugs in
Webswell Connect. They accuse us from false advertisement that Webswell
Connect in the recent version belongs to Webswell and is spread under
Academic Free License. They want us to reverse all changes that have
been made by us on any OS SW that is used on the given integration
project and withdraw it from SourceForge and all companies that use it.

I have to tell that we have made many changes during the time of the
project that has not been payed by the Customer and are not used by the
customer.

They deleted emails on my notebook during yesterdays visit and tell all
employees of the customer to not speak with us. I do backups so I have
not lost any documentation.

We are small company we are only 2 plus one external member. We do not
have to much money to spend on the attorneys. Do you know somebody who
is able to help us in this case?

The court conference is on September 5, 2006 in United States District
Court, Albany, New York. The magistrate judge is David R. Homer.

I will send you the agreement with the customer and jury trial documents
and other documents on request. 

We are convinced that the agreement with our customer can not give them
copyright rights to software under Academic Free License.

Thank you for your help in advance.
Ladislav

-- 
Ladislav Urban
CEO
Webswell Inc.
1333 Howe Avenue, Suite 100
Sacramento, 95825 CA
email: ladislav.urban at webswell.com
phone: +1 (916) 290-2040
fax: +1 (916) 921-2850
http://www.webswell.com



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