Thanks for the heads up. I removed it and it is working fine now :-)
Re cooperation with them - I offered that already. They basicly siad my work would clash with what they are planning to release in the future. I can only assume they feel they will get more money from the stuff they are already planning on releasing.
I had offered to split the profits 50/50 with them, which would be easy money for them since I had already done all the work and had publishers lined up waiting. I even had an old university friend who is a native Russian, who speaks fluent English and Russian, and thus could have easily translated it into Russian and localised it. It could then have been sold in the Russo-phone nations as well, making yet more money, since the profits from that would be split too, probably 50% for GSC, 25% for me and 25% for my friend who translated it.
I even offered to make extensive alterations to it in order to be granted the licence, and offered to sign an NDA to ensure confidentiality regarding any info they divulged about what those future plans were. But still they said no.
I have heard they have let people down in the past, which is one of the reasons I was not getting my hopes up. Even if they had given permission,they might then change their mind later as happened to an earlier author.