20 Mar
2015
20 Mar
'15
2:22 p.m.
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net writes: ...
as it stands the early release of the binary (with the re-wrapped functions) looks remarkably similar to the illegal attempt made by some criminals in 1996 to pass off the entire samba source code as their own Copyright Work (sale price $USD 50,000).
The wrapper approach sounds like it might not be that different from VMware's attempt to insulate themselves from the GPL, for which they're currently going to court in Hamburg:
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/
Cheers, Phil.
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