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GPL Kerfuffle Takes Xbian For Raspberry Pi Offline

Posted by timothy on from the oh-you-mean-that-was-a-license dept.

tetrahedrassface writes "Rasbmc developer Sam Nazarko is reporting that Xbian had violated the GPL and stolen his installer code without providing attribution and not releasing their source. His breakdown of events is interesting, and currently the Xbian project has been taken offline with several tweets saying Xbian development is terminated."

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  1. Re:GPL Kerfuffle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, it's of Gaelic/Scots origin and means "disturbance in the force"
    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kerfuffle

  2. Re:GPL Kerfuffle by Omnifarious · · Score: 5, Funny

    OH NOES! I've been forced to expand my vocabulary! The pain in my head is killing me, please make it stop!

    --
    Need a Python, C++, Unix, Linux develop
  3. Re:Dumb Link Award by wierd_w · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, to play devil's advocate here...

    If the just came out and said "the xbian project is cancelled", and DIDN'T post the link for verification (yup! Its dead!), then there would be people denouncing the statement as FUD, and shouting [CITATION NEEDED].

    Rather than take it as "Hey, Check out this TOTALLY AWESOME project that is so totally cancelled on their inactive website! Its a complete waste of time!" I would take it as the req. for the [citation needed] crowd.

    *shrug*

  4. Re:Cromulent by stms · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't see why Kerfuffle shouldn't be used in the post title. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

  5. NOT a GPL violation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The disputed code is not licensed under the GPL. The actual License can be found here:

    http://svn.stmlabs.com/svn/raspbmc/LICENSE