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FSF Threatens GPL Lawsuit

Posted by timothy on from the tlas-with-tlas dept.

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.

7 of 426 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How many developers get away with this? by bloxnet · · Score: 1, Funny

    I know of one company that gave itself away because of zlib vulnerabilties.....

  2. Looked like an odd place by EvilStein · · Score: 4, Funny

    OpenTV uad an office in Mountain View for a while, right down the street from Netscape. I used to peek in the window on my way home but I never actually saw anyone IN there, just a bunch of TV screens showing various programming.
    I always thought that it must have been a dot-com front for drugs or something.
    Interesting to see that it's an actual company. :P

  3. Whew... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Note that Gillmor is reporting the FSF's claim of violation, not making it himself.

    Thanks! I almost had to read the article this time...

  4. once and for all, the diff between bsd and gpl by Triumph+The+Insult+C · · Score: 3, Funny

    # wc -l bsd.txt ; wc -l gpl.txt
    39
    340

    i wonder which one is easier to understand, use, and just flat out makes more sense.

    --
    vodka, straight up, thank you!
  5. Am I feeding the troll? by Pentagram · · Score: 4, Funny

    it means you can never make software that is available for sale from anything that has been opened as GPL

    Bollocks!

    1) There is nothing to stop you selling GPL'd software

    2) If you're the copyright holder of the code you can do anything you like with it, including making proprietary derivatives

    if you ask a professional programmer. I am one, I know.

    Excuse me while I fall down at your feet and beg for your wisdom.

    the packaged software industry, is largely unscatched

    If you were that professional you would use real words rather than making up your own.

  6. Re:Doing plenty in plenty of time. by Kyller · · Score: 2, Funny


    Your analogies are as bad as a chicken that walks funny.

  7. Re:source has been released by Edmund+Blackadder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow that was fast. I bet even the BSA lawyers are jealous of FSF's ruthless efficiency. :)