16 Nov
2011
16 Nov
'11
1:48 a.m.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 04:24:46 PM Fons Adriaensen did opine:
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:20:11AM -0500, gene heskett
wrote:
That, to be polite, sucks, Fons. And I certainly would get in touch with
Harold Waite at the FSF, relating every instance of your interchanges with
them. I get the impression that the EU courts have been more friendly to
the GPL folks than ours have been. It may be that the FSF can force
discovery since something so simple could be found in just the complete
makefile tree of their product. I've no idea there, but here, a search
warrant seems easy enough to get, and that alone often triggers a
settlement and compliance.
Good luck.
Cheers, Gene
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The GPL still has teeth. However if this
reseller is using the
profits to fund improvements and/or bug fixing, AND those patches are
being contributed back, then I have no huge moral problems with it.
It may resemble a wine vs crossover thing, if you want the latest,
buy crossover. If wine will run your app, that is ok too.
I just stopped counting the number of times I've been asked to
change the license of some of my code from GPL to LGPL 'so we
can use it in our product'. There seem to be a lot of people
around who just think it's perfectly OK to make money by using
work of others without paying them. The latest was just a few
weeks ago, MikrosImage <www.mikrosimage.eu>. I offered them a
commercial license at a price that would have been peanuts to
them. Result: not even a reply. They are probably using my code
now anyway.