Theoretically one can - all that's needed is nobody technical enough to review the code. In practice, popular open source software gets reviewed by technical people, thus the probability of malware getting inserted intentionally approximates zero.
Most software built by companies are owned by the companies themselves by virtue of copyright - employees cannot just distribute proprietary company property as open source without express permissions of their employers as they do not hold the copyright over it. Conversely, companies cannot just incorporate GPL software as their own without following the terms of the license. TLDR: mess with copyrights and the terms of licensing and risk getting sued applies whether in proprietary or open source. Paolo Alexis Falcone Sent from my iPhone On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:47, sirc saira <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello guys, > > Supposed a programmer intentionally put a malicious code in his/her > program/software and sells it to a company under GPL license. Can the company > sue after the programmer? Does it contradict that under the GPL system > programmers can release code without the fear of being sued? > > thanks for the clarification. > > crisostomo arias > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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