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more on Earthlink IPv6 in the Home
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:04:23 -0500
Begin forwarded message: From: Lee Revell <rlrevell () joe-job com> Date: January 3, 2006 12:57:17 PM EST To: dave () farber netCc: ip () v2 listbox com, dewayne () warpspeed com, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh () hserus net>
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Earthlink IPv6 in the Home While it's an open question as to whether Sveasoft is violating the letter of the GPL (they probably are not) they are certainly violating its spirit. Basically they don't prohibit redistribution of the source (this would be a clear GPL violation) but they terminate your subscription if you redistribute it. This is understandably offensive to many free software developers, as they may not be violating the GPL but they certainly demonstrate contempt for it. Basically they are saying to Linux developers "we'd prefer to just steal your IP but our lawyers don't think we can get away with it". Lee On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:21 -0500, David Farber wrote:
Sveasoft has a few controversies re its open source licensing - pleasegoogle for them and determine these for yourself. I dont use sveasoft so haven't been tracking the license wars surrounding it.
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