Martin Franco wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
In fact, this is what the MySQL did in the article: "Nice software you
got there. Are you *sure* you're in compliance with the GPL? Shame if
some lawyer found a violation and had to take you to court. You oughta
buy a commercial license as "insurance"."
So be sure you're not violating the GPL, and ignore them, as best you
can. If you're playing by the rules, they'll lose more money and time
trying to harass you than you will in taking it.
You can "be sure" and still have to shell out a nice set of legal fees
to prove it when someone files against you. The GPL does not exist in a
vacuum somehow separate from law. The legal system and the GPL form a
*system* which allows the GPL to have force.
The commercial license will somehow manage to be a painful fraction of
the legal fees yet be sufficiently less than a full-on trial.
Blackmail at its finest. Expensive enough to be profitable, but cheap
enough that it isn't worth fighting.
-a
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