On 8/20/06, Luis Villa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/20/06, Luke Hoersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > GPL verification is done in a much more casual way than the > > CC licenses and some people don't even notice they do it, but, a need > > for verification still exists. > > For what it is worth, even the uber-paranoid lawyers at Sun and Novell > did not require us to verify the source of GPL'd code we used in > company products, as long as the GPL was correctly included in the > source we were using. The only time we ever had to verify that I can > recall were when the included copyright information was in some way > non-standard or unclear. Verification certainly isn't a bad option to > provide, and if a standard API could make verification automatic, that > would certainly be a good thing, but the GPL community has done fine > without any verification,
s/without any/without substantial/ > so it seems to me that saying there is a > 'need' is a bit strong. > > Luis > _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
