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Re:Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure by nhebb on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:47AM (#4380100)
If you go to the plagiarized product page (http://www.chupamobile.com/products/details/600/Secured+Chat...) and click more info under Regular License, the license terms are more restrictive than the BSD, which is a violation. However, the author is in Indonesia, so there's probably not much recourse.

Edit: the plagiarist is in Indonesia

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Re:Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure by yarrel on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:56AM (#4380113)
More restrictive terms than BSD aren't a violation.

Plenty of proprietary systems have been based on BSD code. That's pretty much the point of BSD.

If you want to prevent people placing more restrictive conditions on your code, that's what the GPL is for.

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Re:Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure by beagle3 on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:56AM (#4380112)
> the license terms are more restrictive than the BSD, which is a violation.

I think you are confused with the GPL.

BSD only requires you to acknowledge original authorship, and declines any suitability or liability. It requires you to preserve the first. (You're welcome to take liability, though ...)

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Re:Plagiarism of my open source app ChatSecure by davidw on Tuesday August 14, 2012 @05:55AM (#4380110)
You can package up BSD code and resell it under a more restrictive license.
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