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Foundstone Shoe On Other Foot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horse-of-different-color dept.

Cimmer writes "One of the premier hack shops (to pun or not to pun) gets busted for unethically ethically hacking. After filing a lawsuit against former employee JD Glaser for supposedly jacking company source code, Foundstone gets nailed for massive internal software piracy. Tonight's entree: Foot in Mouth."

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  1. They tried to violate the GPL too by nicholasharbour · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This company had tried to market a ext2fs undelete tool to the computer forensics market. I looked through the binary and found several references to lib ext2 (they left all debugging symbols in so I could see exactly what files they had compiled and linked). the ext2 library is GPL and not LGPL so therefore their program should have been GPL. When we told them about it, they just wrote back and basically said "we arent violating anything". a short while later the tool disappeared from the market. Food for thought.

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