GPL in Court - Good or Bad? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Cliff on Monday August 11, 2003 @11:55AM from the this-was-inevitable dept.

Irvu asks: "The Register has a lengthy opinion piece today about IBM's lawsuit, and the GPL. Barring a settlement this case will see the first test of the GPL in a court of law. Previously the GPL has functioned as a social contract with the implicit (albeit untested) force of law behind it. Any ruling now could radically alter the free-software/open-source landscape for good or ill. Andrew Orlowski dwells on these possible ills in his piece. What does Slashdot think? Is this test a good or bad thing? Do you have faith in the justice system (or IBM's Lawyers) to draw the right conclusions? And, how do you see any outcome affecting you?"

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GPL by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-11 12:21 · Score: -1, Flamebait

If the GPL is invalidated and basically turned into a preachy version of the BSD license I'm switching to FreeBSD.

I mean if the GPL is turned into the equivalent of the BSD license why the fuck should I put up with this shitty ass Debian crap.