Explained in other words

Posted Jul 29, 2009 20:03 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: Explained in other words by MathFox
Parent article: A new GCC runtime library license snag?

"Side by side on the same server"... this would mean that if I have e.g. OpenSolaris and BSD and some Linux distributions on a mirror somwehwere, the license terms kick in? Sounds horrible.

human judges

Posted Jul 29, 2009 20:12 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

They'll look at whether things are intended to be together, or intended to be combined after download, etc. They won't view Debian+OpenSolaris in the same way as they'd view git+gcc packages for Debian.

When learning to be a computer admin or programmer, we're taught how to see *past* the differences between a lump of bits that forms an operating system ISO and a lump of bits that forms a picture. To think about legal issues, we have to remember to look *at* those differences.