GPL Violations On Windows Go Unnoticed?

Posted by kdawson on Thursday August 30, 2007 @01:29AM from the not-in-my-back-yard dept.

Scott_F writes "I recently reviewed several commercial, closed-source slideshow authoring packages for Windows and came across an alarming trend. Several of the packages I installed included GPL and LGPL software without any mention of the GPL, much less source code. For example, DVD Photo Slideshow (www.dvd-photo-slideshow.com) included mkisofs, cdrdao, dvdauthor, spumux, id3lib, lame, mpeg2enc, and mplex (all of which are GPL or LGPL). The company tried to hide this by wrapping them all in DLLs. There are other violations in other packages as well. Based on my testing of other software, it seems that use of GPL software in commercial Windows applications is on the rise. My question is how much are GPL violations in the Windows world being pursued? Does the FSF or EFF follow up on these if the platform is not GPL? How aware is the community of this trend?" This new method of detecting GPL violations could help here.

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Re:welcome! by Maximum+Prophet · 2007-08-30 04:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Is it a new rule on /. that EVERY article has to include a comment featuring the tired, stale "overlords" joke?
Yes. What slashdot should do is have a link to the auto-joke creation page, where it takes the subject and automatically creates the Overlord, Beowolf, and in Soviet Russia jokes. Once those are taken care of by an AI, people won't feel the need to repeat them.

I for one welcome our Auto-Joke Creation Overlords, but imagine a Beowolf cluster of them. In Soviet Russia, the auto-joke creates you!!!

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