SCO updates Unix product, open-source attitude

CNet ^ | 2005-06-23 | Stephen Shankland

[Tribune7]

For stories like this I miss the Eagle :-)

[N3WBI3]

there seems to be a replacement..

[ThinkDifferent]

The LGPL allows for the theft of any of my source that's linked to it

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

[N3WBI3]

He uses theft for almost the same reason the RIAA uses piracy, because its inflammatory. In the case of the RIAA its really copyright infringement, not piracy. In the case of the GPL its called RTFM, not theft. People who moan about the GPL being theft always amuse me (especially when in the same thread they admit its political)..

[amigatec]

The BSD license contains no such communist virus and does not seek to steal the work of legitimate software businesses. The BSD license even allows businesses to use the associated work as closed source in their own works.

Let me get this straight

You like the BSD license because it allows you to steal others work....but you don't like the LGPL because it doesn't??

But it the same time you tell me that the BSD license does not steal???

I am confused here.

[familyop]

I'll put it this way. Any software developer who sells/distributes his own binaries that are linked with L/GPL'd libraries can be sued. Others who have tried that have already been harrassed by lawyers and legions of Linux socialists. See items 5 and 6 in the copy of the license above. And most libraries with the LGPL do not have a good addendum like that.

I'll release some free code for all, but it will be under the BSD license.

[familyop]

Let's get some truth out about this matter.

Open Source Licensing:
What Every OEM Should Know
A Wasabi Systems white paper
Jay Michaelson
Vice President & General Counsel,
Wasabi Systems Inc.
http://www.wasabisystems.com/pdfs/GPL.WhatOEMsShouldKnow.pdf

[antiRepublicrat]

From your link:

It is the first time a court has enforced the GPL, and it illustrates the worldwide jurisdictional risks faced by commercial GPL users.

Hilarious. It's RTFLS ("Read the Friggin' License, Stupid!"). Does anyone grab a copy of Windows Mobile, start hacking it to their needs, and redistribute it without regards to the legalities and possible consequences Windows Mobile license?