Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 23rd Sep 2006 17:58 UTC, submitted by Ben Jao Ming
"The gpl-violations.org project prevails in court litigation against D-Link regarding D-Link's alleged inappropriate and copyright infringing use of parts of the Linux Operating System Kernel. D-Link distributed DSM-G600, a network attached storage device which uses a Linux-based Operating System. However, this distribution was incompliant with the GNU General Public License which covers the Linux Kernel and many other software programs used in the product."
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RE[5]: Seems like great news.
by thebluesgnr on Sun 24th Sep 2006 00:03
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RE[6]: Seems like great news.
by dylansmrjones on Sun 24th Sep 2006 01:50
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BSD is also a hard place for a company that innovates.
Put your IP up for grabs and then every joe, dick and harry can legally appropriate your own IP and use it against you.
With BSD you can take an existing program and make it 10 times better and then just make binaries available.
How does this hurt innovation ?
Companies don't have to make any code BSD if they don't want.
bytecoder
GPL, in my mind, seems to be the license of choice for the people that want to "stick it to the man," rather than benefit society as a whole. Think about it: if somebody "steals" your code and improves their product, is that not still benefiting the users? So what if they're not using your product, who cares, are open source developers really that vain?
The GPL is not about sticking it to the man. It is about keeping software free and not letting the giant company stick it's boot up your ass/arse.
The main purpose of the GPL is to "get what you give."
If you take some other person's code and use it in your own program you have to give it back because it was given to you. Share and share alike. "How dare you steal my work and not give back !"
BSD doesn't have to give back, but GPL does. This is what caused the death of OpenDarwin since Apple could wait however long it wanted or needed to release the x86 code.
Of course Apple also didn't have to release anything since BSD allows you to keep it private.
If it were GPL it would not have happened.
I'm sure red hat and all the other giant linux makers don't feel like they are getting abused by the GPL.
If you don't want to release your code under the GPL don't use GPL code to begin with !
Use BSD or make your own. It's not that hard to understand. BSD = do what ever GPL = no leeching