And, strings only gives you a hint, showing only ASCII set matches, right?
<rant>
Binaries can be obfuscated fairly easily, either to disguise original source or to give false impressions... if you've been computing for 10+ years you've seen this change immensely.
IMO it shows the shallowness of some engineering & product development cycles to see any violations caught by strings but I am glad for it. Those lazy bums....
Someone should make a sourceforge [meta]project for analyzing proprietary code to scan for possible license violations -- it seems like the only way open source can keep up, since there's not as much money to pay both engineers and lawyers to take up the task.
</rant>
Sorry I went all tangential again :P and BTW, haven't seen any final or best word on the MS/ODF code issue...
Ben
On 7/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It really depends on a few things:
1) Is Microsoft distributing their code under their usual draconian EULAs?
2) Is Microsoft's work a derivative of the LGPL work, or does it simply link to it?
3) Are they including information that the code, or that parts of the code, is covered under the LGPL?
4) Are they making all LGPL parts readily available as a source-code download?
Pretty much, as long as they aren't claiming that the LGPL code, or derivatives of it, belong solely to them, then they are not afoul of the license. That's the thing that is sucky about the LGPL and why Ricky Stallman has been trying to get people to stop using it for the last 6+ years.
Chris
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:15:19 -0700, "Michael Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> I don't know if that is exactly legal. MS is known for taking source
> code and repackaging it. Ever strings there TCP/IP stack or any of
> the files in the Unix Services for Windows?
>
> On 7/11/06, Ben Barrett < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>> Not that I know of... I suppose that would be a good reason to use FLOSS
> :)
>>
>> Did y'all catch the recent article(s) about MS and some OpenDoc-related
> LGPG
>> utilities which they included in an ODF plugin?
>> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060709143240795
>>
> http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_Grabs_Some_Code_for_its_ODF_Plugin..._From_the_ODF_Fellowship
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
>>
>> On 7/11/06, Michael Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > I guess on a side note. Did you have a sign out at the fair that
>> > exsplaned how Microsoft is droping support for Windows 98 and Me
>> > today?
>>
>>
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