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stealing from GPL?
iustitia:
Voidmain:
That article from the FSF has been somewhat reassuring. However, I still think it impossible enough reversersing is going on that would find code under the GPL. Especially when one considers the amount of code under the liscense, and the majority of shrink-wrap liscenses that forbid reversing. Especially because we know of frequent stealing of things like kerbos, Mosaic, Screwing over netscape, spyglass, and java, and the TCP/IP thing which has been my most recent learning of the offence. And M$ is just one company out of the thousands of "innovators"!
voidmain:
From what I recall it was starting with Win2k that they went with the BSD stack. As you probably know, every version of Windows prior to Win2k the TCP/IP stack was absolute crap. NT was better so maybe it was with NT they started using BSD code. I'll do some searching and see what I can find.
voidmain:
Here I see someone else referencing it:
http://old.lwn.net/2001/0607/a/esr-big-lie.php3
quote:
Other open-source licenses -- such as the BSD license in the TCP/IP
stack that Microsoft adapted for Windows -- will never infect
anybody's code or data, because they're designed not to. But Ballmer
wants businesspeople and the public to fear them all, because only if
open source is general is discredited will Microsoft maintain its
monopoly.
--- End quote ---
And here's one that would make it appear that
M$'s FTP client and more was robbed from BSD:
http://www.daemonnews.org/200108/dadvocate.html
Very interesting...
In fact I just ran a "strings" on my ftp.exe and sure enough, the copyright is there, plain as day!
[ June 10, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
Kintaro:
The GNU LGPL is fully legal.... If somone stole your source... you just sue them for copyright infringement.
Calum:
yes but the question is how would you know their binaries were from your source, if they didn't release their source for you to check it against?
Voidmain was saying they don't do that purely because somebody on the inside would leak it. That's what money's for though, and finding articles on the web does not a lawsuit make unfortunately.
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