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First post, by Tritonio

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I'm making a new thread instead of resurrecting the old one which was also somewhat misguided as people were mainly complaining about the Magic DOSBox dev profiting from GPL code, which is perfectly fine, as long as source code is provided at least on request by someone with a copy of the binary.

I've purchased Magic DOSBox years ago, I followed the instructions and emailed them at username "magicbox" on the domain "imejl.sk" requesting the source code. That was 9 weeks ago. 5 weeks ago I sent them a reminder, and 1 week ago I sent them another reminder. I emailed him from a gmail address, same as the one I used to purchase the program, so I doubt my email is going into his spam folder. Unless there's a technical issue, the developer is in violation of the GNU/GPL at this point.

I also considered CCing in my email every of the 5 emails in the AUTHORS file of the DOSBox repo to bring this discussion since it's their copyright that's getting violated but I decided against it for now so as not to spam them.

I've also found the publicly available details of the programmers limited liability company which owns Magic DOSBox and I'm consider maybe sending him some actual registered mail to his registered address so there's no doubt about him not having received it.

Thoughts? Advice?

Reply 1 of 1, by darry

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I do not have any suggestions or recommendations, but I wanted to point out that the latest release on the Play Store is from just over one year ago and the news on the website have not been updated in over 2 years.

While the above, in itself, does not justify anything, it does, IMHO, provide some insight into potential reasons for the lack of responsivess.