<div dir="ltr">Jacob,<div style>In the discussion that you linked to (<a href="https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2">https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2</a>), you only agreed to take up your responsibility to credit the original authors after I repeatedly requested it five or six times. There are still problems:</div>
<div style><br></div><div style><ol style><li style>You are refusing to license the research under its original license. You are committing a breach of our AGPLv3 license. Please license the work clearly under the AGPLv3 immediately.</li>
<li style>Pursuant with the attribution requirements of the AGPLv3, please make sure you correctly attribute the original licensees.</li></ol><div style>Anyone who reads our discussion at <a href="https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2">https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2</a> can see that you are absolutely acting in bad faith. Please do the very minimum and license your fork under the AGPLv3, with proper license attribution. Anything less is unacceptable.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>And I completely refuse to take this discussion of the OTR-dev list. It is absolutely relevant to this list, many of the contributors are on this list and I would most certainly like you to be held accountable for your behaviour in bad faith.</div>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><br>NK</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Jacob Appelbaum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacob@appelbaum.net" target="_blank">jacob@appelbaum.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Meredith L. Patterson:<br>
<div class="im">> I don't mean to speak for Nadim here, but I suspect at least some of<br>
> his concern stems from the redaction of the endnotes in section 10 of<br>
> the document on the Cryptocat wiki[1], which read "Special thanks to<br>
> Jacob Appelbaum, Joseph Bonneau, [&c]", to your version[2], which<br>
> reads "This document was authored by a number of anonymous<br>
> contributors". You were credited, Jake, and it is disingenous and<br>
> derailing of you to attempt to claim that Nadim did not credit you or<br>
> "think[s] that you own [your] work product."<br>
><br>
> As the academics among us on this list are well aware, plagiarism is a<br>
> serious concern. I personally have seen far too many instances of<br>
> plagiarism or likely plagiarism swept under the rug -- including the<br>
> one that led me to quit my PhD -- to be comfortable with seeing this<br>
> matter "resolved" behind closed doors; I would prefer to see it dealt<br>
> with right here where you brought it up by failing to properly credit<br>
> Nadim's work.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Hi Meredith,<br>
<br>
I believe you are mistaken and looking at the CrytoCat specification<br>
located here:<br>
<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/Multiparty-Protocol-Specification" target="_blank">https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/Multiparty-Protocol-Specification</a><br>
<br>
The mpOTR specification that I co-authored is a totally different<br>
document and has no attributions whatsoever in the wiki history or in<br>
the wiki page itself:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/mpOTR-Specification" target="_blank">https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/wiki/mpOTR-Specification</a><br>
<br>
Comparing the first two documents and the mpOTR spec in git should<br>
clearly indicate that they are different documents. In fact, the current<br>
git repo that I am managing actually properly credits everyone that I<br>
remember as even having discussed the topic, including Nadim!<br>
<br>
Once, we did have some attribution in git history (commits, etc) but it<br>
was lost when Nadim moved it to the wiki. Ironically, no one was<br>
credited in the CryptoCat document except for Nadim.<br>
<br>
As I have said previously, I am a co-author of that document and I have<br>
never signed a copyright assignment to the CryptoCat project. So, if<br>
someone is going to claim plagiarism, claiming to own the document<br>
wholesale is pretty unreasonable. In any case, Nadim has just declared<br>
his contributions under the AGPL:<br>
<a href="https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2#issuecomment-13589031" target="_blank">https://github.com/ioerror/mpOTR/issues/2#issuecomment-13589031</a> I have<br>
thus documented it in the git repository.<br>
<br>
Again, if something is missing, I'm happy to add it. I do believe that I<br>
have added everyone that has made contributions and who was comfortable<br>
being credited in public on such a document.<br>
<br>
And again, lets please take this off of the OTR-dev list - it is sure to<br>
be annoying to everyone!<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
Jake<br>
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