Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 20, 2006 04:46 AM
Who knew that GPL abuse could occur at the hands a GPL proponent? Note to self: start promoting the use LGPL instead of GPL. Sorry, but the viral nature of GPL is incredibly alarming to me.
You actually mean to say that if you had been properly credited and the IChessU program had used a socket to access Jin, leaving the Jin code untouched, that you would consider that a violation that would force the proprietary socket to be GPL'd? That's just as wrong as DRM; you're just on the other end of the spectrum.
You may be 'right' in the sense that you'll win your legal battle eventually, but morally I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
Thank $DEITY that Linus won't have anything to do with the upcoming GPL3. That would only make abuses at the hands of GPL zealots even worse.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2006 04:46 AMYou actually mean to say that if you had been properly credited and the IChessU program had used a socket to access Jin, leaving the Jin code untouched, that you would consider that a violation that would force the proprietary socket to be GPL'd? That's just as wrong as DRM; you're just on the other end of the spectrum.
You may be 'right' in the sense that you'll win your legal battle eventually, but morally I don't think you have a leg to stand on.
Thank $DEITY that Linus won't have anything to do with the upcoming GPL3. That would only make abuses at the hands of GPL zealots even worse.
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