Just reproducing my response to your comment on TMCnet ( http://blog.tmcnet.com/telecom-crm/ ) here. Now we leave the decision to the community. Believe our contribution, commitment & support to the community will justify our stands.

Dear KC,

This is Mani from vtiger.

I guess you have a mis understanding about vtiger. The general content on our site is not changed much ( the layout has changed a lot ). From day 1, we have given due credit to SugarCRM. You can verify this through www.archive.org

In our very first post in vtiger forums, we mentioned "We have built this initial version on top of SugarCRM".

KC comment
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The thing that concerned me more than anything was the fact that ALL the copyright notices were gone.
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This is also not correct. We have missed the copyright notice in just 1 file ( & not in ALL files ) & we corrected it immediately after pointed out in August 2004. The agreement itself gives time to correct such mistakes & we corrected our mistake within 24 hours. Please understand that missing in just 1 file was a mistake & not an intention.

You have posted your blog "Open Source Trials & Travails" on 14th Jan 2005. But we corrected that 1 file copyright issue before end of August 2004. You can check the below FORUM post in www.vtiger.com for proof. That is the reason why I have asked you to check out the facts in my response to your post.

http://www.vtiger.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?t=11&highlight=john+robertws

FYI, we have no intention to hide the fact that vtiger is based on SugarCRM. SugarCRM initial licensing allowed us to do packaging & we only did that with a good intention of making the installation easier for SugarCRM.

Hope I am clear. Please feel free to correct me if I have misunderstood something.

Thanks,
Mani.