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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. Re:Avoiding The Viral GPL by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why do we even bother?

    This is not a "GPL fiasco" any more than pirating a movie is a "DVD fiasco".

    And who's to say our ideology is the one that's kooky? You do realize that the "commercial world" is an ideology itself, and...

    Never mind, it's over your head. Fucking troll.

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  2. WTF? by msimm · · Score: 0, Troll

    Vultures? Most of the comments are either wrong (like yours) or pointing out that the article is out-dated and id/Valve already corrected the issue. What vultures? Unless you mean the editors, but your number is low enough you should know they troll articles like the anyone else.

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  3. Re:Could you vultures wait? by AaronLawrence · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just because their legal team might be assholes (by design), doesn't mean we have to lower ourselves to their level.

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  4. Re:Transparently divisive rubbish. by Ash-Fox · · Score: 0, Troll

    Judge asks: Whats the damages?

    What do you answer?

    A: Make up a number. Bad idea
    B: Its free under GPL.
    C: Failure to discuss licensing terms so you could license them the ability to use a closed source version for a huge sum.
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  5. Re:call me a noob... by Ash-Fox · · Score: 0, Troll

    When the BSA takes action against pirates, they are typically seen as the bad guy around these parts.
    Usually I hear of people going to give anonymous tips to the BSA on certain companies on Slashdot.

    However, the articles we hear about are usually about the BSA forcing schools/universities to buy yet another license for their already OEM licensed hardware, forcing them to use a entirely different licensing system like per seat licensing and so on when they are already licensed. That isn't action against piracy and yes, that makes them a bad guy.
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