Mike Miller wrote: > On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Steve Bostedor wrote: > >> This is all just fantasy talk, anyways. We KNOW that theirs is a >> modified VNC because they spell it out on their website. Who cares, >> I guess. It looks like everyone's doing it. Integrity and doing the >> right thing just doesn't matter for anything these days, I guess. >> Kiss the GPL good-bye on this one. > > > What did they do that was wrong. They say that their software uses > VNC. That's not wrong. They sell it for money -- also not wrong. > I'll sell you a copy of Xvnc for $500 and I'll call it "Mike's VNC." > That's not wrong (because I'll include the source code, copyright, > GPL, etc.). Are they violating the GPL, or are we just imagining that > they must be violating the GPL?
Has anyone managed to get the source code off of these guys? If not, *that* is what they are doing wrong, just like SmartCode would not give out their source code, even though it should be exactly the same as the code that you can request from Wez himself. GPL means you must release the source on request, otherwise you cannot claim it is GPL. If you cannot claim it is GPL, then you cannot use that GPL source code in your product. Therefore, it is clear-cut, and there is no ambiguity here. Both companies *owe* us the source code, and we should be able to email them once, and get it. As for a hall of infamy, I reckon it would be fun, but also libellous unless undertaken wrt to the written letter of GPL law. -- Mark Jacobs http://www.dkcomputing.co.uk _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list [email protected] To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
