24 Oct
2012
24 Oct
'12
9:30 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
What makes you think I was referring to either Korg or Yamaha?
Anyway this situation is completely different.
Fairlight are shipping
products that already use Linux software. They have a legal obligation
under the GPL.
To you? Are you their client?
Out of
curiosity, why is it that every time some vendor makes use of
free software, the first reaction is "hey, release source code"?
Is it the only thing that interests you?
No one did anything about Korg or Yamaha for all these years. What makes
you think that it's everyones first reaction? Look at Groove OS too. Rui and Christian fed back a
huge amount of their
code into their existing open source solutions so nobody was upset if
Lionstracs didn't publicly release all their code in a single package.
They still have the obligation, as you've just said yourself. You
might as well go after them. Or are we back to the old tried double
standards? :)
In this case Fairlight may just not be aware of their
explicit legal
obligations. No one knows unless they ask. I don't see any harm if, for
example the Consortium sends a generic letter by email and physical copy
alerting them of their legal obligations and outlining the positive
aspects of doing the "Right Thing" (tm)
That would be very nice and human. </sarcasm>
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org