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Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 2, 2012 9:27 UTC (Thu) by zyga (subscriber, #81533)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by davide.del.vento
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

If you have 3rd party suppliers that provide almost everything for you then this is a real problem. If you think everything is rebuilt then you surely have an idealistic view of how production works. Often all you do is build your app on top of a toolkit ant 3/4 of the "open source" code there is just whatever was provided by the supplier.

Now suppose a tarball you got does not properly match the binary (which you don't really care about as long as it works, you also don't have the time expertise or time to rebuild and test all components). Now you have a license compliance issue that puts your product at risk.


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