Sigma Designs/XVid Update

Reagen Ward and many other people have written in with updates to the Sigma Designs/XVid situation, reported a few days ago. Sigma has replied in email and a press release that they intend to make the source code available, however, they seem to be paying lip service at best to the terms of the GNU Public License. Grant Gross from Newsforge has been pursuing the story and in a story yesterday and another today lays out the current situation.

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omg clueless.

[7-Vodka]

Read their statements in the article linked by the story. It's hillarious. They start by advertising their product, then continue by saying how they love opensource and the linux operating system. ERM i thought the GPL was FREE SOFTWARE not opensource and... what does this video codec have to do with linux? As a matter of fact what kind of a freakin apology is this?!

Oh the code theft was carried out by a lone programmer without our managers knowing about it. ROFL, so this guy cuts and pastes a years worth of work, then goes on a year's vacation and your managers are STILL clueless? Yes, please, I'll buy all your products now that I know how competent you are (/sarchasm).

Lip service?

[SmokeSerpent]

Releasing the affected code under the GPL is lip service?
No, it's exactly what is supposed to happen.

Don't you think it's strange...

[EggplantMan]

That Sigma Designs would acknowledge that code was stolen, and instead of retracting their program and rewriting the offending portions, they just disclosed the source to the program? I think they were anticipating this well beforehand and decided that if the worst situation happened they would just disclose the source.