SourceForge project removal
Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 12:21 pm
I posted a project sometime last year or the year before...around spring...it's been hardly downloaded...
It's branded in my company colors, etc and copyrighted by me...clearly it's mine despite being posted as open source.
About 9 months ago I requested they remove it and instead I got an email informing me that it's likely useful to others and for that reason they will keep it but remove my name from the project.
I gave up at that point as I could care less. Now however, I am considering re-persuing my project (the name at least) and starting a version 2 which will *not* be open source. I'm really interested in having that project removed and I am considering proper legal action.
Has anyone ever successfully removed a project? What were the reasons you needed to convince them? Should I get a lawyer to write them a letter?
How should I go about getting SourceForge to *listen* to the original author.
It's branded in my company colors, etc and copyrighted by me...clearly it's mine despite being posted as open source.
About 9 months ago I requested they remove it and instead I got an email informing me that it's likely useful to others and for that reason they will keep it but remove my name from the project.
I gave up at that point as I could care less. Now however, I am considering re-persuing my project (the name at least) and starting a version 2 which will *not* be open source. I'm really interested in having that project removed and I am considering proper legal action.
Has anyone ever successfully removed a project? What were the reasons you needed to convince them? Should I get a lawyer to write them a letter?
How should I go about getting SourceForge to *listen* to the original author.