"Doug Mentohl" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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amicus_curious wrote:
What irks me is that the victims of the SDLC are the little companies
that use Linux the way that it was intended to be used and do not have
the resources to waste on defending their otherwise clean conduct ..
Whould you mind enumerating and detailing these cases of companies
engaging in 'clean conduct' and abiding by the terms of the GPL, beign
sued by the SDLC?
Look at the SFLC website for a complete list. Typically, some company, for
example Monsoon, uses stock FOSS stuff in their product, which is what the
FOSS folk seem to want them to do, and one of the FOSS authors, BusyBox,
jumps their bones about not publishing the BusyBox source even though it was
not modified in any way in the Monsoon Hava products. Monsoon is a hand to
mouth sort of organization to begin with and immediately complies with a
totally useless exercise that only satisfies the letter of the
contract/license and provides no real benefit to anyone. They lost some
time and money that they cannot easily afford and the community gains
nothing of any use.
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