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SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBoxDevelopers

SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBoxDevelopers

Posted Jun 11, 2008 0:09 UTC (Wed) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBoxDevelopers by trasz
Parent article: SFLC Files Another Round of GPL Violation Lawsuits on Behalf of BusyBox Developers

It's possible to disobey the terms of almost any license.

Traditionally what this sort of company does with BSD or MIT licensed software is they include
it in a product, but file off all the copyright notices replacing them with their own. And
then when they're asked if they're using BSD code, they reply "No". Also they ignore any
future security fixes, and they add just enough proprietary bits to ensure that the original
BSD code is no substitute, so their customers can't just switch to that.

This apparently makes BSD developers a bit upset.

Even people who've supposedly dedicated their work to the public domain often don't seem too
happy to see it re-published, for profit, with their name stripped from it and someone else's
included.


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