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Tracking GPL Violators
An anonymous reader writes "Earlier this week, open source developer Harald Welte made headlines when he personally served warning letters to 13 technology companies for alleged GPL violations. Now in a ZDNet interview, Welte explains the challenges behind tracking down these violators and how he persuades them to comply."
When I saw this story, I immediately thought of that simpsons episode where Homer has the internet startup, and Bill Gates tells his two goons to "Buy him out, boys"
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
In order to prove the superiority of the BSDL, I hereby provide a list of successful commercial forks of programs under BSD or Apache style licenses:
It's easy... just tip off the BSA. Aren't they the organization that's supposed to enforce stuff like that?
Or should we just Slashdot the scum ;-)
Simply talk to the **AA. Tell them that so and so company is about to release GPL software that is designed to download all sort of movies and music in a fully encrypted fashion. Watch how fast the FBI move in.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Windows NT TCP/IP stack.
woah! Stop at the beard part!
I'm undergoing serious training to straighten out my back caused in part to single strap backpackage.
A blog I run for the wealth
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Thanks for posting using yor real alias. You have now violated their ToU!