CEO Sandeep Gupta? I don't know how common the name is, but is not Sandeep Gupta also the name of the Vice-Precident of Engineering at SCO? The same Sandeep Gupta who is testifying on SCO's behalf as to the "substantial similarities" of Linux and UNIX code?
If this is the same person, how much weight should we give to his words? After IBM's lawyers are through with him, he certainly doesn't seem to have that much credibility in the tech industry any longer...
Not only the spirit of the GPL, but FOSS development in general, I would say. Being from the BSD camp myself, this is not only common, but normally actively encouraged. All the BSDs are forked from a common codebase at one point after all. So usually any snippets of code commited to one end up in the others with appropriate credits, if they are found useful.
But then, BSD-folk have always been liberal about where the code is used anyway, that's the whole point of the BSD-license of course, even more so than the GPL.
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CEO Sandeep Gupta? I don't know how common the name is, but is not Sandeep Gupta also the name of the Vice-Precident of Engineering at SCO? The same Sandeep Gupta who is testifying on SCO's behalf as to the "substantial similarities" of Linux and UNIX code? If this is the same person, how much weight should we give to his words? After IBM's lawyers are through with him, he certainly doesn't seem to have that much credibility in the tech industry any longer...
Not only the spirit of the GPL, but FOSS development in general, I would say. Being from the BSD camp myself, this is not only common, but normally actively encouraged. All the BSDs are forked from a common codebase at one point after all. So usually any snippets of code commited to one end up in the others with appropriate credits, if they are found useful. But then, BSD-folk have always been liberal about where the code is used anyway, that's the whole point of the BSD-license of course, even more so than the GPL.