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

Hi Andrei,

What are the customers of SmatStore going to do? Many customers are confused and you get no reply by SmartStore.
Can you continue working with the software when they insert the copyright?
The customer should not suffer from the inability of SmartStore.


Frank

Hi Andrei,

What are the customers of SmatStore going to do? Many customers are confused and you get no reply by SmartStore.
Can you continue working with the software when they insert the copyright?
The customer should not suffer from the inability of SmartStore.


Frank

Here you can find some guidelines for Smartstore users

Hello, I have a question- we have an old version of smartstore shop and now i wanna use the new open source version – smartstore.net.

But i am afraid to do this because of the conflict between NopCommerce and smartstore. Maybe you can help me to solve my conflict.

Here my questions:

- Smartstore is prepared for the German market very well. Is NopCommerce this also? If not is this already planned and when.

- If i use NopCommerce which licence is valid? I ask it because i read  the problem with smartstore in their blog. As i understand we have today two different licenses-v2 and v3. I would like to work with v3. On Codeplex-Plattform ist the version v2 and on nopcommerce.com ist he version v3. So if i download NopCommerce from your website do i have the Version v3? And what ist the technical difference between this two versions?
- Do you have a German documentation of NopCommerce?

- Are there special Plugins for the German market?  

- If NopCommerce has no Current adaptation for the German market and  i have to use the smartstore what would i have to do to get no problems with you?

If the answers are unsatisfying i will have to change on Magento to get no problem with you and with smartstore.

Many thanks  for the answers
Alex

can you share the file number and Court?
Can you provide the judgement?

can you share the file number and Court?
Can you provide the judgement?
Hi Frank,

Sure. I personally don't mind. But I don't know whether whether it's allowed by German laws. So first I need to get a permission for my lawyers. I'll share the document if they allow. Please wait. I'll let you know soon

UPDATE: And here we go. The court announced its decision today. We won! Right, it's over! Flawless Victory! Instead of just returning "powered by nopcommerce”, SmartStore AG is not allowed to distribute SmartStore anymore.

Your interpretation of the court decision is quite awkward. We must adhere to the GPLv3 license instead of LGPL. Not a word about NPL or forcing us to use your logo. SmartStore.NET 2.1 will have GPLv3 in conclusion.

...And they also have to pay us ALL service and support fees they got since they offer SmartStore.

But only in your dreams.

Of course, SmartStore can go to the next court instance. Let's see whether they will do it.

Of course we will. Now it's our turn! A higher court will deal with the issue now.

They can try to delay court results this way.

No, absolutely not! We yearn for a final word. But the only decision(s) we could accept are: "put the damn logo into the footer", OR, "do whatever you want".

But they should not do it if they want to get a chance for some deal with us.

There won't be a "friendly" deal as long as I work here. You and your pals played too rude and unfair during the trial, without waiting for a court result. You cannot have both!


I understand that this court decision can completely kill this company.

No, it won't, believe me! :-))))))))

We do not want it. We also do not want to harm existing users of SmartStore.

You're a very kind person ;-)

nopCommerce and SmartStore could collaborate. Let's wait and see whether SmartStore wants it.

Like I said... NO!