[horde] TeliaSonera violating the GPL by using Horde-code?

[Jonatan Heyman]

Hi!

I'm living in sweden and a while ago, sweden's biggest ISP 
(http://teliasonera.com), had some problem with their webmail webserver, 
which caused all PHP files' sourcecode to be available for everyone for 
about 15 minutes. I happened to go to their page at that very moment and 
I downloaded a part of their webmail system during this period of time. 
When I checked the code I stumbled across two GPL notes in the beginning 
of two files.

This:

/ File: config/lang.php3
 $Author: robert $
 $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
 $Date: 1999/12/13 03:27:43 $
 *
 IMP: Copywrite 1998 Charles J. Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
 *
 This code is under the GNU Public License
 See the file COPYING in this directory/

And this:

/  File: config/mime.conf
  $Author: robert $
  $Revision: 1.1.1.1 $
  $Date: 1999/12/13 03:27:43 $
 
  IMP: Copywrite 1998 Patrick C. Audley paudley at blackcat.ca
 
  This code is under the GNU Public License
  See the file COPYING in this directory
/

They are appearantly using GPL'ed code in their system, and they 
defenately haven't released the sourcecode for their webmail system. I 
believe this code belongs to the horde project and therefore I'm posting 
this message now. A friend of a friend of mine sent a mail to 
teliasonera asking them to release the sourcecode of their 
webmailsystem, but as far as I know they haven't replied nor released 
the sourcecode.

It's almost a year since I downloaded this code, but it seems like they 
haven't changed the files because the file size seem to be the same. You 
can see the filesize in kb on http://webmail.telia.com/config/ and if 
you check the CVS/Entries in the same directory you can see this:

/configure.php3/1.1.1.1/Mon Dec 13 03:27:43 1999//
/lang.php3/1.1.1.1/Mon Dec 13 03:27:43 1999//
/mime.php3/1.1.1.1/Mon Dec 13 03:27:43 1999//
/defaults.php3/1.2/Tue Mar 14 17:28:22 2000//

I'm not very familiar with CVS, but I do believe that this means that 
the last update was made in 1999-2000. lang.php3 and mime.php3 is the 
two files which I believe was stolen from horde.

I'll attach the files I managed to download to this message. If this is 
a GPL violation (and I can not think of how it could not be) I hope 
someone is able to enforce the GPL here. Besides TeliaSonera is a crappy 
ISP which I'm forced to use because I can not get high speed ADSL from 
any other ISP where I live.

/Jonatan Heyman
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