nshulga
join:2002-06-06
Morrisville, PA | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: OpenWRT would have a problem in court said by fAcEtIOUs:» www.linksysinfo.org/modules.php?···&thold=0The GPL itself is an "all or nothing" license based on the economic and political theories of Karl Marx. It claims it can subsume any other license if a single line of "GPL" licensed source code is used anywhere in the source files. Should this occur, all source code files become magically GPL licensed in their entirety. Naturally this claim by the GPL has never been tested in court and the GPL folks have adroitly avoided any and all court cases that might lead to a thorough legal review of the GPL license terms.
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IF the highlighted info above is correct as to the facts, then OpenWRT would have a very hard time winning anything in court. I doubt Sveasoft has much to worry about from OpenWRT's threats. The highlighted info is not factually correct. It's plain old BS.
Suggested reading: GPL license, Groklaw, wikipedia. |
| Right. If you use GPL licensed code in a non-free license, you're in violation of copyright, but that doesn't automatically mean the remedy is to release all your code under the GPL.
As for Sveasoft, they're violating the GPL left and right. Distributing binaries without source, refusing to allow redistribution of binaries without penalty, "re-licensing" other people's code which was already under the GPL, etc. |
