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Viral GPL Misconceptions Elegantly Explained
Scot W. Stevenson writes "Our favorite paralegal Pamela Jones of Groklaw has put together a short FUD-killer on the General Public License that explains why you can't lose your proprietary code if you inadvertently incorporate GPL code. This is not the only text of its kind, but it is so well explained that you might want to bookmark the page for future reference."
New open letter idea: explain how you CAN lose your free code even if you don't incorporate any SCO code into it, as long as SCO keeps saying you have.
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
was that lawyer-esq(ue) pun intended?
Did you read the article?
Is this a trick question or something? How was I going to get an obvious troll high enough for people to read if I actually took the time to read the article?
I mean, duh.
Dude, she's a chick.
No sack.
What a strange bird is the pelican, his beak can hold more than his belly can.
From the article:
This is likely to mean that a copyright holder who licenses her software under the GPL, and subsequently brings a law suit against an individual who allegedly violated a term under the GPL would sue for copyright infringement rather than breach of contract.
Not exactly encouraging. According to the RIAA, copyright infringement is worse than manslaughter. You'd be better off shooting the original author - you'll do less time.
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Weaselmancer
rediculous.
Yeah, I could not resist the pun, but apparently the moderators could...
He looks more like a beardy unix dude then a hippy..
Picture: Eben Moglen.
I've only been programming for about 15 years, so maybe it's just my lack of experience talking here, but... never have I had it happen where a library simply links itself into my program of its own volition. If you know of a way to make this happen, I'd love to hear it, because it would save me loads of time grepping through assorted header files to figure out a library interface, reading documentation, etc. It would be a dream come true.
Incidentally, in every (L)GPL'd library I've ever used, the licensing terms are spelled out clearly right there at the top of said header files. You'd have to be either a) incredibly dense, or b) trying, not to know under what terms they were licensed.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
We need a -1, Bad Spelling mod.
That's almost as bad as the story about this other guy. He borrowed some of the Windows system DLLs for use in his own alternative OS product. A bunch of BSA zealots then started a witch hunt with many actually demanding that he give all the money he'd made and more to Microsoft! What was worse was that he had already helped Microsoft by buying a copy of their Windows OS!