Star Windows Source Code Seller Pleads Guilty
Linked by Andrew Youll on Wed 31st Aug 2005 16:23 UTC
Windows A sentence of roughly one to three years' jail is expected for a man who sold source code for Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. A Connecticut man has pleaded guilty in a US federal court to selling Microsoft source code over the Internet.
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RE[2]: Not funny
by on Wed 31st Aug 2005 17:43 UTC in reply to "RE: Not funny"

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The difference is (and it is a pretty substantial difference) ... GPL'd code is not a "trade secret" by it's very nature.

I think that you would have a case of copyright (copyleft?) infrigement if someone used GPL software in a closed source project without permission.

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v RE[3]: Not funny
by rm6990 on Thu 1st Sep 2005 06:09 in reply to "RE[2]: Not funny"