It seems that the ruling caused some stir, IMHO it shows that the GPL has teeth and is working. Several people found that already. BB is a big player in the world of embedded devices and on a profi level we can savely assume that ppl know what GPL is and we are not interested in making money.
> Westinghouse Digital Electronics was also ordered to hand over >> equipment in its possession that contained GPL code does that mean there is somewhere a warehouse full of stuff that belong to whom ? And where is the code ? re, wh Denys Vlasenko schrieb: > On Friday 06 August 2010 15:43, walter harms wrote: >> this artikel may be interesting for people concerning about the rights ... >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/04/gpl_violation_westinghouse/ > > In your (and other readers') personal opinion, is it good or bad > that we are getting this kind of "PR"? > > One important detail that the company which was violating GPL > in this particular case is bankrupt at the moment; do we look bad > by making its life even harder? - > >> Westinghouse Digital Electronics was also ordered to hand over >> equipment in its possession that contained GPL code >> and forbidden to distribute devices which contained >> the BusyBox software. > > Your thoughts? _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
