Licence text and fabs

Licence text and fabs

Posted Oct 5, 2006 15:22 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454)
In reply to: Licence text and fabs by mingo
Parent article: Busy busy busybox

The answer is simple :

1. hardware maker uses GPLvx code -> he's now bound by the license requirement

2. here comes content provider, asking something incompatible with the hardware maker licensing obligations :
A. hardware maker can refuse
B. hardware maker can accept to breach his legal obligations, and be sued
C. hardware maker can accept, replacing the GPLed code with something compatible with the content provider demands. He won't be sued. If he's smart, he'll make the content provider pay for the change

No judge will defend someone promising to do foo to A and not-foo to B.

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