Smartstore violates nopCommerce license terms!!! Let's discuss

...SmartStore has released a new version today

jenimsya wrote:

Version 2.0.0 and 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 in three weeks.
Version has only error.

Hi Andrei,

When there is something new about SmartStore?

fb_frank wrote:
Hi Frank,

No. Otherwise I would write about it. Please see my post here

UPDATE: I've been just told that the court will make the decision on June 12th. But it'll take up two one week before we get it (June 19th). So let's wait...

https://twitter.com/theonlylawislov/status/477049676231737344

UPDATE: The court shifted the date for the result to July 17th. There are very busy. OK. Let's wait...

Also I would like to share some information about a new SmartStore strategy and their latest letters to the court. As I've already written before they already tried to prove that they derived from nopCommerce 2.00 released on August 2nd 2011. Then they tried to convince the court that they downloaded and derived nopCommerce downloaded from www.nopCommerce.it (Italian) which has some outdated license speficied. For the last two months they're trying to convince the court about the following. Russian name of our company is "ООО Ноп Солюшенс", English name is "Nop Solutions, Ltd" (Russian "OOO" is the same as "Ltd" is English). Their strategy is to claim that we are not Nop Solutions Ltd because the translation from Russian language to English can be interpreted in several ways. No comments! There are also a lot of other absurd points in their letters even not related to the nopCommerce license. I just don't want to describe all of them because they are written just to make our lawyers spend more time replying to them and doing some "paper work". IMHO just delaying the court result.

These guys are working hard to bury their reputation... although not sure that they ever had it

theonlylawislove wrote:
That's absolutely right and fairly. Users of SmartStore should know the truth about their "heros"

These guys are shameless and cynic. Murat Cakir said here (http://community.smartstore.com/index.php?/topic/45889-smartstore-nopcommerce-license-and-legal-dispute/):
"... No one can ever forbid to stop development of an open-source project, this is just absolutely impossible. We're in open source space here, it has its own rules and dynamics. And forbidding development is NOT one of them, this would be the death of open source.

So, what could be the worst-case then: the judge could - which I'm definitely sure will never happen - force us to put this "powered by nop" logo to the footer. That's it! It's the essence of the legal dispute, nothing more.

So please: feel safe and start through"

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree they have broken the licensing agreement. The styling in the admin section is particularly nice, especially the header menu and icons.  I would certainly support similar changes to be applied to the standard nopCommerce admin layout/styles so they don't look so plain.