Re: GPL [Was: CarrierIQ Software and Forth]

From	Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
Subject	Re: GPL [Was: CarrierIQ Software and Forth]
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BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> wrote:
> On Dec 29, 5:37?am, Andrew Haley <andre...@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
> wrote:
>> It's an interesting thought. However, there is nothing special about
>> GPL'd code in all this: there are other licences that insist on all
>> manner of things as a condition of use. I presume that Apple requires
>> its app providers to certify that they have the rights to the
>> copyrights in the software they ship. In the case described, neither
>> Apple nor the authors of the app have any right to use the GPL'd code.
> 
> What would be special about FOSS is that program authors who are
> making heavy use of FOSS of others may be particularly likely to be
> laboring under misconceptions regarding the rights that they have to
> the source that they are making use of.

Maybe.  IME, though, people who work on free software tend to be
rather obsessive about legal terms.  Is it true that you really have
to link statically with Apple libraries to run on Apple systems?  That
sounds terribly inefficient, not to mention unreliable when a bug is
found in one of those libraries.

Andrew.

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