>From the book: Linux Administration: A Beginners' Guide, 5th Edition Wale
>Soyinka
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THE ADVANTAGES OF OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
If the GPL seems like a bad idea from the standpoint of commercialism,
consider the
surge of successful open source software projects—they are indicative of a
system that
does indeed work. This success has evolved for two reasons. First, as mentioned
earlier,
errors in the code itself are far more likely to be caught and quickly fixed
under the
watchful eyes of peers. Second, under the GPL system, programmers can release
code
without the fear of being sued. Without that protection, people may not feel as
comfort-
able to release their code for public consumption.
crisostomo arias
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From: Rafael R. Sevilla <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] Intentional Malicious Code in Open Source
On Tuesday, 22 November, 2011 08:47 AM, sirc saira wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> Supposed a programmer intentionally put a malicious code in his/her
> program/software and sells it to a company under GPL license. Can the
> company sue after the programmer? Does it contradict that under the
> GPL system programmers can release code without the fear of being sued?
The GPL does not protect a developer from getting sued. I don't know
where you got the notion that the GPL extends protection of that sort to
anyone. On the contrary, it gives a developer a means to sue anyone who
is misusing their code as part of proprietary software.
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