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id and Valve May Be Violating GPL

Posted by Zonk on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

frooge writes "With the recent release of iD's catalog on Steam, it appears DOSBox is being used to run the old DOS games for greater compatibility. According to a post on the Halflife2.net forums, however, this distribution does not contain a copy of the GPL license that DOSBox is distributed under, which violates the license. According to the DOSBox developers, they were not notified that it was being used for this release."

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  1. Does this mean by BiggestPOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can get a copy of the source for Half-Life 2?

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    What, me worry?
    1. Re:Does this mean by GPL+Apostate · · Score: 4, Funny

      The only thing people here are 'experts' on is flaming each other.

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      Microsoft says legacy (serial/parallel) ports are bad. They don't obfuscate the hardware enough.
    2. Re:Does this mean by Charles+W+Griswold · · Score: 2, Funny

      To be fair, you can post any question just about anywhere and it will devolve into a 20 post long thread with people going back and forth about who's right and who's wrong. Humans are a highly fucking disagreeable lot.

      No we're not, and furthermore I strongly resent that accusation.

      Besides, I'm right and you're wrong. So there.

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    3. Re:Does this mean by Oktober+Sunset · · Score: 2, Funny
      That wasn't a very expert flame. You should have called him a dog bothering bucket of lard with a face like a crash-test chimpanzee, less brains than a road killed possum and smelling about as bad as one too. Also he loves Hitler.

      That's a proper flame.

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  2. Re:Avoiding The Viral GPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Global Partners LP?

    OpenGL to PostScript?

    Global Land Project?

    I'm confused about what GLP has to do with this.

  3. I have a GNU gpl license by raventh1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a GNU gpl license that came with commander keen. COPYING.txt