OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/22472/SFLC_Finds_One_GPL_Violating_Company_Per_Day Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Fri, 24 May 2013 12:38:02 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com Attribution of the article? http://www.osnews.com/thread?393884 http://www.osnews.com/thread?393884 Thom, you may wish to edit the OSNews article to indicate who wrote the article. It reads as if you are the one hunting down GPL violations, rather than Bradley M. Kuhn.

Regarding the article itself, it's a sad state of affairs. But back in my corporate days, I remember lots of dubious behavior in using (L)GPL in software without batting an eye going on. I'm sad to know that's more the default than I suspected. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:37:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Mr. Sanity) Comments RE: Attribution of the article? http://www.osnews.com/thread?393897 http://www.osnews.com/thread?393897 Firstly is says "Linked by: Thom..." and secondly the entire text is encapsulated by quotes. Thirdly, if it where written by thom it would be on the front page.

I think that is enough for most people to figure out it was not written by Thom. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (righard) Comments ... http://www.osnews.com/thread?393917 http://www.osnews.com/thread?393917 When will people learn to read licenses?

I'd like to know the all the kind of GPL violations found, from the one that forgot a simple comma to the one is not distributiong the source code. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Hiev) Comments RE[2]: Attribution of the article? http://www.osnews.com/thread?393972 http://www.osnews.com/thread?393972
Firstly is says "Linked by: Thom..." and secondly the entire text is encapsulated by quotes.

It states "posted by" in the main page of the story. Only here in comments section it claims "linked by" but there is no proper link anywhere, still. Hiding it in the context isn't proper way to do the linking.Edited 2009-11-11 10:27 UTC Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SJ87) Comments Going proprietary http://www.osnews.com/thread?394469 http://www.osnews.com/thread?394469 In theory it sounds simple. Developer X releases the product under GPL. Company Y wishes to include the software in their product. Company Y contacts developer X and they settle the matter, company pays some compensation and that's it.

The real problem is when there is a number of contributors, not just one developer X. Company needs to negotiate with a number of parties, and some of them might not be easy to get in contact with.

GPL needs to address that kind of problem, perhaps there should be a variant of GPL. Dual licensing may be ok when there is a single developer, or a developer with special rights (like MySQL). Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (trenchsol) Comments