Bug 26081 – GPLFlash is no longer available and the website was shutdown because author of program doing illegal (scams) activity.

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description rmgentoo 2003-08-06 15:05:08 UTC]

The program GPLFlash (net-www/gplflash) is no longer available and the website
has been shutdown due to illegal activity. The apparent author seems to have
scammed people. The GPLFlash page is down, but the domain which the page resided
is active with a message (by the owners of the server) explaining the situation. 

URL: http://www.swift-tools.com/

Please delete all ebuilds associated with GPLFlash from portage.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.swift-tools.com/

[Comment 1 aethyr 2003-08-06 17:17:19 UTC]

I feel if the code is liscensed under the GPL, and the tarball is still available, the ebuild should remain, as long as it is maintained.

Who knows, maybe this project will be picked up by someone else?

[Comment 2 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2003-08-13 05:54:45 UTC]

The README that comes with this download contains a reference to 
http://www.directfb.org/download/contrib/ - maybe the homepage of the ebuild be refered to here 
as there is some indication that they may maintain it. 

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-08-13 15:53:04 UTC]

heh, the libgplflash tarball has a timestamp of like 2001 on the directfb site ;) 

[Comment 4 Sean Leather 2003-09-06 20:50:53 UTC]

Actually, the website is just wrong. The correct website should be:
  http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/

It took a tiny extra bit of Googling to find that. :)

[Comment 5 Joel Hill (RETIRED) 2003-10-03 16:06:02 UTC]

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