OT - Closing Off An Open-Source Product

[Dave LeBlanc]

That's copyright infringement, pure and simple. GPL does not magically
convey some immunity from existing copyright laws. Derivative works
are derivitive no matter what whitewash you slap on them.

Dave LeBlanc

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:08:59 GMT, "Fredrik Lundh"
<fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:

>Chris wrote:
>> I submit that the "hacker ethic" is the real protection here anyway, because
>> if a "big guy" steals a major piece
>
>what if "hackers" working for a big GPL guy takes your non-GPL'd open
>source code, makes a usually trivial change, and instead of contributing
>the change back to the original author, they redistribute the result as
>their own code, under GPL?
>
>has happened to me many times...
>
>(and for some reason, non-GPL folks never do things like that.  go figure)
>
>Cheers /F
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