-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 (All dates/times are CST / GMT-6) Timeline: * 2011/6: Netafp.com withholds source with a snotty open letter to try and force consumer NAS device manufacturers into paying them for support contracts. * 2011/6: They announce they have updates to the 2.2-beta4 release which fixes time machine support for OSX 10.7 * 2011/7/20: I respond to their open letter. Via pastebin + twitter and through the contact form on the netafp.com website. http://pastebin.com/jzXWdCzJ * 2011/7/20: I receive a response from Ralph Böhme saying, in part, that the issue should be sorted out within weeks/months. http://pastebin.com/YXjxEQT8 * 2011/7/21: I respond asking how they will let me pay for a support contract so that I may have working backups. (No response received.) http://pastebin.com/YXjxEQT8 * 2011/7/21: I find that netgear released binaries for their "closed" version of this GPL product on 2011/7/20 * 2011/7/21: I download netgear's distribution which had no additional click-through licensing. * 2011/7/21: I respond to my inquiry regarding a support contract with a demand for the GPL'ed source. Netgear, netafp.com contact, netatalk-dev@lists.sourceforge.net, and gpl-violations@gnu.org are in the email envelope. http://pastebin.com/YXjxEQT8 * 2011/7/21: I submitted a story to slashdot with links to the original open letter and pastebins of my email correspondence along with links to the netatalk-dev mailling list archive posts. * 2011/7/21: I receive a response to my demand from Frank Lahm with a copy of the netatalk-2-2-0-p6.tar.gz which contains the source in question. Off-list and with no other recipients of the email. http://pastebin.com/MiWBbp7q * 2011/7/21: I posted the received source to github and responded with all original recipients in the email envelope with a link to the posting on github. http://pastebin.com/MiWBbp7q * 2011/7/21: I receive a request to remove Ralph Böhme from all public postings to prevent him from having issues with his current employer who apparently has terms against him contributing to open source projects or receiving payment from other agencies. (Which is the case is unclear.) http://pastebin.com/9QAmJL3L * 2011/7/21: I respond that I cannot remove his name from the pastebin postings as they were posted as anonymously not with a logged in account. http://pastebin.com/9QAmJL3L * 2011/7/21: Frank responds pointing out that his name was in the github commit. http://pastebin.com/9QAmJL3L * 2011/7/22: I acknowledge that I accidentally pasted the wrong contact as the provider of the source, fix the commit message, and do a forced update on the repo removing his name. http://pastebin.com/9QAmJL3L * 2011/7/22: I submitted a new story to slashdot with the updated information using links to the mailling list archive where the github repo was posted. * 2011/7/22: I awake this morning to find that they have taken their site down for "maintenence" and someone has removed the github link post from the netatalk-dev mailling list archives making all links in both slashdot stories inaccessible http://pastebin.com/gTMt315b * 2011/7/22: I ask Frank why he has censored the mailling list archives. http://pastebin.com/gTMt315b * 2011/7/22: He claims no knowledge. http://pastebin.com/gTMt315b * 2011/7/22: I point out that someone has removed it. http://pastebin.com/gTMt315b * 2011/7/22: He claims that only the sourceforge admins have access to manipulate the archives. http://pastebin.com/gTMt315b * 2011/7/22: I composed this timeline and uploaded the missing pieces to pastebin to prevent further censorship. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOKak4AAoJEEPHkQabDWHPcyYP/jfsVD/IQg5Qkp76ZGTeamY1 QI6Ma77G+hVL7akcGVfRQHqowfXqEBx0jYWbypU2SdgEnGSiTTIivsMRJhYxUI3P +8C4b22YGcgWSdxQoFrNMz0cfO4Y0tAp5WbcUO2C5pw+/ThaFi5LoMn+zBXQkduq HgFsT6KJqMcx7t2EjA3j8MSbHImaH2fRuAMbMNhtH4Xhu5YGS2E14NOZHBAZ7mX9 01grGceZ+PLtY4rgiZ2EA36NhRwiImCPRJlaeUtq1VPXrfrnahrqlAcXUWbc5Qvi w3iIFms01SIQHcOIfhSEOSXo+GsMU7FbHuuRtFBcyH4YpsrpGs8f2HU716bFgp8O hSKWlVnu+mGWZb1uT7wak4WZy/L0jEdrzVIGAGB1sb7y2rhJeL+NQebu2Tlkcz9v Qb6xogkIbF1cWh1h28wgSHBUDPLu8eRMpOQCs236+lTtOt9MYWrqUjJdgSqOZ07k 0/QVogF2gguXRFqMZddp3eBNsxoADkWZ0Z6p6u9OhD7OCMhOTwOLMwwI51c9BN2f bYtKVbTXwrvMUp4hdvWk/tgzLxCs5DbJPwxh1LaRIJAtL9SW9cX0zXwp/pTDqODz arSvI1IEBMtb6ZoGre/wBsm9j6MvqWNzoFoF/U+DZ70DfbCup7fP1KRLTJNrNn4O 4+xps1xuWUYXKszbQKp5 =+eMc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----