Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris [LWN.net]

Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 11, 2007 6:01 UTC (Sun) by Arker (guest, #14205)
In reply to: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris by mmarq
Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

You could just make the treacherous "feature" disableable.

Want to make slaves of your customers? Fine. Don't use GPL code to do it. Write your own.

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Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Posted Feb 11, 2007 7:31 UTC (Sun) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Ge... that was an example, im not posting on self interest.

I firmely belive that the general hardware manufactor wants to use GPL code, not because of licence, but because of sales... if only they could "wrap" some closed tiny technical sensitive details on it . Some integrators dont.
Funny thing is that the general hardware manufactor rarely do it, and are constantly pressured to lock away their platforms, while many of those "some integrators" that dream of a world without GPL are big on it.