GPL is like a cancer

2009-04-07 Thread Rjack
As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of BSD-style and public domain source code. By including that other source code it ends up spreading like a cancer.

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-07 Thread chrisv
rat wrote: Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using the free GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC. Ignorance is no excuse!, they say, What's yours is now ours, you have been touched! So, you think software developers just grab

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-07 Thread JEDIDIAH
On 2009-04-06, Rjack u...@example.net wrote: JEDIDIAH wrote: On 2009-04-06, amicus_curious a...@sti.net wrote: JEDIDIAH j...@nomad.mishnet wrote in message news:slrngtkmgi.vvv.j...@nomad.mishnet... GPL license offerers are much more akin to homeowners who are trying to rip off their

Re: GPL is like a cancer

2009-04-07 Thread AZ Nomad
On 7 Apr 2009 14:10:10 GMT, ray r...@zianet.com wrote: On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 06:56:08 -0400, Rjack wrote: As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of BSD-style and public domain source code. By including

Re: GPL is like a cancer

2009-04-07 Thread dr_nikolaus_klepp
Rjack wrote: As we were going over the scan results I noticed a very interesting trend. The GPL licensed software tends to assimilate quite a bit of BSD-style and public domain source code. By including that other source code it ends up spreading like a cancer.

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-04-07 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Developments: 1. In http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/docket/284.pdf, Judge Jeffrey S. White issued an order DENYING [236] Motion for Preliminary Injunction; DENYING [267] Motion to Strike Declarations; DENYING IN PART AND GRANTING IN PART [192] Third MOTION to Dismiss; DENYING Motion to Strike;

Re: The GPL means what you want it to mean

2009-04-07 Thread amicus_curious
dr_nikolaus_klepp dr.kl...@gmx.at wrote in message news:2b749$49dbc4aa$557d7df2$...@news.inode.at... chrisv wrote: rat wrote: Now that is more akin to the way that unsophisticates are lured into using the free GPL code and then are hammered for their birthright by the SFLC. Ignorance is no

Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion

2009-04-07 Thread Rjack
Alexander Terekhov wrote: Developments: 3. KAM filed a motion to transfer the case to the 9th Circuit: http://jmri.sourceforge.net/k/docket/cafc-pi-2/Katzer_Motion_to_Transfer_to_Ninth_Circuit_3-10-09.pd Perhaps we will see the final copyright ruling in this case brought to a conclusion