Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld)

Posted Apr 1, 2016 10:36 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld) by paulj
Parent article: Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld)

> Note that that need _not_ affect the damage done to the copyright holder of that other code while you were infringing their rights, and they could still try recover those damages from you regardless of you having ceased to infringe their rights.
> In no case are you ever forced to release your source code.
Again, I wish people would top making deceptive statements.

Yes, nobody forces the source code release at gunpoint. The worst that could happen is a lawsuit for damages in ranges of tens of millions - that's certainly not "forcing" or anything. You are absolutely free to pay the settlement to each and every copyright holder of the affected library.

Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld)

Posted Apr 1, 2016 10:40 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (2 responses)

If you use someone's else code, there are consequences.

You're like a child complaining there are consequences to stealing sweats from a shop, that you might be "forced" at "gunpoint" to hand them back. The injustice of it!

Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld)

Posted Apr 1, 2016 10:57 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link] (1 responses)

Did I say anywhere that I'm not aware about the license limitations or that complying with the license should not be mandatory? Please, do provide my quote.

> You're like a child complaining there are consequences to stealing sweats from a shop, that you might be "forced" at "gunpoint" to hand them back. The injustice of it!
Hmm.. Let me try to run my insult generator.

Ok, here it goes: 'These GPL hippies talk all the time about GPL because they want to have their code written by large companies, while paying nothing for it. They can't care less about actual users or the advancement of industry, all while sanctimoniously proselytizing about "freedom"'

Rust's Redox OS could show Linux a few new tricks (InfoWorld)

Posted Apr 1, 2016 11:18 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

In an earlier comment you said that it was "not fair" that using the functionality of someone else's GPLed library should mean you have to comply with the licence of that library:

"It's not _fair_ that it should infect the whole code base."

--- Cyberax in http://lwn.net/Articles/681977/

That definitely sounds like you're complaining about having to comply with other people's copyright licences.

Pray tell, if I got hold of your closed-source code somehow and did whatever I wanted with it - sell it commercially (maybe with further code of my own), or GPL it - would you be fine with that?