FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit

An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News reports that OpenTV is violating the GNU General Public License. He notes that the Free Software Foundation is threatening to file a lawsuit in the case. If you haven't become an associate member of the FSF yet, now would be a good time!" Note that Gillmor is reporting the FSF's claim of violation, not making it himself.

Comments

Re:Different from SCO lawsuit?

[ctid]

I fail to see the difference between the two stories. Both entities (SCO & FSF) are just trying to maintain the integrity of their licenses.

The difference is that SCO's case is completely without merit, while the FSF's case here is completely watertight. Of course, this is my opinion. You could form your own opinion by reading SCO's deposition, plus whatever other materials are available (I'd recommend Eric Raymond's OSI position paper for a start).

We should start a petition / web site to ban the FSF just as the community has done to SCO.

What do you mean, "we"? You start a petition in support of OpenTV if you like. Why do we have to waste our time with your petty complaint?

Screw the FSF

[Moonwick]

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