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Castle Technology UK Ripping off Kernel Code?

Posted by chrisd on from the bad-company-no-cookie-for-you dept.

Jonathan Riddell writes "`It would appear that Castle Technology Limited, UK, have taken some of the Linux 2.5 code, and incorporated it into their own product, "RISC OS", which is distributed in binary ROM form built into machines they sell. This code is linked with other proprietary code.' Full details from Russell King on lkml."

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  1. How dare they... by velcrokitty · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    take something that they didn't pay for...

    Sheesh...

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  2. Evidence??? by workindev · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't know what is more disturbing: Somebody disgracing the sacred GPL for profit (GASP!), or the fact that somebody else actually examined a binary ROM looking for the binary signatures of Linux kernel functions.

    One of the two needs to get a life (I'll leave it up to you to decide who).

  3. I hate to start a licensing flamewar... by meme_police · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ...but who cares? People who license their code under the BSD License don't waste time and energy investigating these types of issues. Instead, they keep coding.

    Go ahead and moderate me down as flamebait for my heretical thoughts, but I fail to see how fighting these battles is at all productive.

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  4. Re:Does that mean... by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No. That's not how it works.

    Actually that's exactly how it works. For better or for worse.

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  5. Re:It's not though by renard · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    AC, AC, what are you thinking? Please brush up a little on your background prior to your next senseless post, lest you be mistaken for a troll.

    If Castle does not accept the terms of the GPL, or the GPL is declared to be invalid, then standard copyright law applies and they are infringing. They cannot and will not be allowed, by any Court, to "cherry pick" from among the various clauses of the GPL those that they choose to accept, and those that they choose to decline.

    -renard