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GPL Violations of Miranda IM

Posted by Zonk on from the bad-devs-bad dept.

Eesh writes "The Miranda project developers have recently posted to their development blog about two GPL violations of companies using their code - vBuzzer and StarMessenger. Today, they also posted that vBuzzer are taking steps to correct that violation. Hopefully this will work out fine. Miranda 0.401 stable was released recently"

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  1. contact info, lets cause the ass's some trouble by Pinefresh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Company Headquarters: Softroute Corporation 155 Commerce Valley Drive East Thornhill, Ontario Canada L3T 7T2 Contact by Fax: FAX #: (905)886-4216 Contacts by E-Mail: General Inquiry info@softroute.ca jobs@softroute.ca partners@softroute.ca Customer Service customercare@softroute.ca sales@softroute.ca

  2. Re:Question... by IHateSlashDot · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Easy. Just run so basic qa tests on the program. If it crashes, chances are that the authors have integrated an OpenSource library into it.

    Seriouosly. Every once in a while a junior programmer will use some opensource library in the product I'm currently managing. I periodically scrub the code and remove them all, but more often than not we find out due to the horrendous quality of the opensource code.

    Some things to look for:

    Memory leaks
    Thread unsafe structures
    Extremely poor multithreaded performance - Some opensource code tries to be thread safe but the poor use of locks simple serializes the code.

    Though our legal department forbids the use of any GPL software due to GPL issues (a much more monopolistic license than even Microsoft), I forbid it bases soley on quality issues.