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Wednesday Dec 5 2007

To: amministrazione@html.it

Hello,

I noticed you're using the code and examples I published in the following post in my blog:

http://www.i-marco.nl/weblog/archive/2007/11/25/jquery_accordion_menu

You have republished it here:

http://javascript.html.it/script/vedi/4406/menu-a-comparsa-con-jquery/

As I mentioned in the README.txt that comes with the demo this example and all code is free for use. However, it reads:

This code snippet is free for NON-COMMERCIAL use.

Now I suppose the fact that you're posting it on your site (even though it looks pretty commercial with all the ads on it) is quite ok as it's helpful for others and there's a link to my site in place. However, I consider reposting my example page as you did here definitely pushing it too far:

http://javascript.html.it/demo/javascript/4406/esempio.htm

You have reposted my example, REMOVING the link to my site that's in the original example, REMOVING the link to the original article and placed a big ad under it while you simply could have linked to MY example page.

I consider this quite disrespectful and I'm kindly requesting you to either take this offline or talk to me about some financial compensation. I'm offering this code for free use by fellow developers, not to generate money for commercial websites.

Thanks,
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg

To my readers: Feel free to comment if you think I'm being too anal here but I think it's not too hard to understand what NON-COMMERCIAL use means. Meh.

UPDATE: WTF they even edited the demo zip and added ads in there as well......

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At 05 December '07 - 10:41 Rose wrote:
Well, at least now I see a link back to the original article… I think it’s fair to send them an e-mail like you did! Everybody in this world should (and does!) understand non-commercial.
At 06 December '07 - 14:27 matthijs wrote:
Sad story. It’s depressing how bad people can be, what a scum-bags there are on this world..
Don’t let a few of these bastards discourage you Marco.
At 20 March '08 - 01:34 Vladimir wrote:
How do you actually find that Italian site, Marco? I think that your e-mail was very kind… Consider how many people can steel your content? How many of them speaks English?

It is almost everybody against you.
At 12 April '09 - 10:49 Sam J wrote:
What an idiot.
Guess which site I won’t be visiting. :D
At 21 April '09 - 05:17 r9ronaldo wrote:
I think you were more than diplomatic with your email and find it appalling that people would sink to such a level. But yeah, don’t let them get you down as you’ve helped many others with your tutorials, including myself. Keep up the good work!
PS: Love the functional funky footer :)
At 25 September '09 - 11:22 ITs on teh Web - It's Free wrote:
Look, if you put code on the web for people to use they are going to use it for whatever they want. If you don’t want to risk someone using your code, you shouldn’t offer it free at all. The fact that you are piggy-backing your script on jquery really negates your claim to compensation, and your for non-commerical use only. It is what it is, (and its a a nifty little function), but you have no claim to any type of compensation form anyone using it.
At 24 March '10 - 05:51 Luis Milanese wrote:
I am with you, man. They could’ve given credit to your work.
At 09 March '11 - 03:30 Deb Harrison wrote:
Hi Marco

Did you ever get my email at the start of this year asking if I could use your script for a commercial site. I am keen to know what financial compensation you seek as the script is ideal for our needs. Can you post me back please?
At 15 March '11 - 07:37 Paul wrote:
The next email you write. Tell the retard f**er to go and f**ck him/her self… You where all to kind..
At 19 May '11 - 16:39 Giuseppe wrote:
Are you serious?
Your 2007 Accordion script has nothing of particular, easy to write and to think. It is simply “JQuery”.
Do u want protect under copyright hide(), show(), next() and slideToggle()

Instead, your’re right to protect your Accordion 3.1 because it is more complex and original.

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