a.m. wrote: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.
They will have to pay back all existing lawyer and court costs to Nop Solutions Ltd. And they also have to pay us ALL service and support fees they got since they offer SmartStore.
Of course, SmartStore can go to the next court instance. Let's see whether they will do it. But our lawyes and I are completely sure that SmartStore AG will lose again if they try. They can try to delay court results this way for several months more. But they should not do it if they want to get a chance for some deal with us. SmartStore has about one month to decide whether they will go to the next court instance. So now we just have to wait. Our further steps will depend on it.
I understand that this court decision can completely kill this company. We do not want it. We also do not want to harm existing users of SmartStore. nopCommerce and SmartStore could collaborate. Let's wait and see whether SmartStore wants it.
I also would like to thank the community and everybody who supported us. Thanks a lot! Special dedicated thanks to
nopDynamics, our solution partner from Germany. Jorg (CEO of this company) continuously helped me with this case. Thanks a lot!
So what does that means for the open source project that have on GitHub
https://github.com/smartstoreag/SmartStoreNET
If they not allowed to distribute SmartStore anymore, why is the code still up?
Can we still down load and use it if we put in the "powered by nopcommerce”
And big question is, did they payout ?
Its been sometime now since judgment.