Complaint Letter 2011 07 25

This is my complaint letter

To whom it may concern,

I am an android developer. I've been working on a simple app for the android phone called 'Awesome Cube'. It is a Rubik's Cube puzzle game. Today, July 25, 2011, I tried to upload my game to the Android Market site. I found that someone had already uploaded my game before me. The game was uploaded by Bernard Chan of 'Mind Orange', a  company in China. The URL for Mind Orange is 'http://www.mindorange.com' . I do not work for Mind Orange and I've never heard of them before.

The source code for the game is on the Google Code website, and has been since the start of development. My name, David Liebman, has been and still is part of the package name for the android app. The package name for the app was 'org.davidliebman.awesomecube'. Today, when I tried to upload the apk to the android market site the action was blocked, as Mr. Chan had already done exactly that. One of my complaints is that he used my name. He did not remove my name from the package name of the Java app. This prohibited me from using my name myself, even though it's my name.

I went to the site associated with the Mind Orange release of my app and found that they seem to be charging nothing for the first five days. This implies they charge for use after that time. My program is and always was open source, and documents stating this have been part of the 'svn' repositories from the start.

Later in the day I went to the source code and changed the package name myself to 'org.davidliebman.android.awesomecube' so that I could submit my app. I don't want to change the name now that I have already submitted it. I will not commit my code with the changed package name until I hear something from someone.

I am interested in having them not use my name as part of their package name. If they just change the name I think I'd be satisfied.

Here is some info on Mind Orange:

WWW.MindOrange.com
Room 2508 , Building 401
Wangjing Park, Chaoyang District
Beijing
100102
P. R. China

I would be happy to correspond with anyone about this. My email info is below:

David Liebman
david.c.liebman@gmail.com
xxx address removed xxx
xxx, NY, zip removed xxx

It's not very well organized. I sent it to someone at google today, but I'm not sure I'll get a response.