FSF doesn't require copyright be handed over. Claiming that they do doesn't quite meet my definition of `insightful'.
FSF merely suggests that people who don't want to be bothered defending the GPL on their own code consider assigning copyright to them so that they can do it. There is absolutely no obligation to do this. If you don't want to hand over copyright to them, that is fine, but then of course defending the terms of the GPL on that code is your responsibility as copyright owner.
Quite apart from the question of exactly what counts as dependency (difficult), they are pretending the code is their own. This means they have been distributing GPL stuff in binary only form without attaching a copy of the license. This alone is enough to revoke their GPL licence.
Indeed it would be easier to corner them in court on these grounds, which are clearcut. If I were a lawyer arguing this case I'd want to stay right away from the whole issue of dependency, because it is unclear.
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FSF doesn't require copyright be handed over. Claiming that they do doesn't quite meet my definition of `insightful'.
FSF merely suggests that people who don't want to be bothered defending the GPL on their own code consider assigning copyright to them so that they can do it. There is absolutely no obligation to do this. If you don't want to hand over copyright to them, that is fine, but then of course defending the terms of the GPL on that code is your responsibility as copyright owner.
What Sun is doing is different.
NT = No Text - so why are you looking here?
Quite apart from the question of exactly what counts as dependency (difficult), they are pretending the code is their own. This means they have been distributing GPL stuff in binary only form without attaching a copy of the license. This alone is enough to revoke their GPL licence.
Indeed it would be easier to corner them in court on these grounds, which are clearcut. If I were a lawyer arguing this case I'd want to stay right away from the whole issue of dependency, because it is unclear.