Originally Posted by raymor

Right. Parallels distributes Apache as part of their Plesk setup. In order to legally distribute Apache, you only have to do two things:

a) Don't remove our copyright notices and attributions.
b) If you make changes, include a note in the appropriate file.

That's all you have to do - just so the recipient knows who to credit or blame. Parallels removed those files, so they weren't allowed to distribute. (Though one person on Apache legal thinks it might be ok if they include the license in a different package, like httpd-docs.)

Since I wrote parts of Apache, I can demand that they stop pirating it. (I certainly didn't write the majority of it, just small pieces, I'm small fry at the Apache foundation, but I'm an author of it legally.)

As mentioned above, within an hour or so, at 1AM, they said they would comply with the license by including those two files, so it's cool now. That's assuming they DO start including the files as promised. Now I need to apologize to them for being an asshole about it.