Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled

Posted Oct 31, 2007 22:50 UTC (Wed) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943)
In reply to: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled by halla
Parent article: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled

"boudewijn" wrote:

You're wrong, according to the research KDE did at the time.

Sadly, this merely proves conclusively that the "research KDE did at the time" was, itself, incorrect. You can verify the example I gave, for yourself, by downloading a kdeutils source tarball and observing the presence of FSF's copyright notice, plain as day, in the kfloppy subdirectory.

It's a bit late in the day to track down what else they missed in composing their "KDE 'Official' Response to Stallman Editorial", but I do wonder about the extent of their undercounting. (I see third-party claims of the day about vt, kghostview/kgv, kdvi, kmidi, kscd, and others, but a single verified example suffices to make the point.)

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com