GPL enforcement: waiting for the Monsoon [LWN.net]

GPL enforcement: waiting for the Monsoon

Posted Sep 27, 2007 8:21 UTC (Thu) by hingo (guest, #14792)
In reply to: GPL enforcement: waiting for the Monsoon by felixfix
Parent article: GPL enforcement: waiting for the Monsoon

Yup, I have to +1 this. This is quite normal, happens every day and there is nothing to be surprised of.

At the same time, I think going for the lawsuit is the right thing to do, it is the only way to wake up these types. Unfortunately.

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Posted Sep 27, 2007 18:48 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link]

Sure, the previous quote from a MM representative shows the kind of mentality you two are talking about:

Seems to me that some of you have just come out blatantly admitting you are reverse engineering the firmware - or trying to. How should we handle this?

And true also, the lawsuit might be the only way to go. It is something that clueful developers can show their clueless bosses in the future. They might not understand "it is about sharing code", but they will surely understand "we just might get sued if we don't".