Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL (github.com/winampdesktop)
18 points by mepian 19 days ago | 6 comments
Winamp contained modified GPL code, violating the GPL (github.com/winampdesktop)
18 points by mepian 19 days ago | 6 comments
That's just not true, surely? Lest everyone using any flavour of Linux is liable to the same problem?
How many apps out there are using GPL code? Android, for example.
Making a derivative in the sense of adding functionality to it, I get, but using it as-is as a component or library surely doesn't - and cannot - fall foul of the license else the entire technosphere is liable.
What? The actual history of GPL enforcement is restrained when it comes to remediation. Are you aware of some routinely punitive GPL enforcer that I am not? Or is this FUD or a joke?
I hope I've not missed some news about your own projects and that you've not been subject to anxiety or meanness on account of the GPL, either. :(