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0 pointsalganet1y ago0 comments

Getting someone who worked on the thing or someone close to the author to be hired by your company and bumped to a high prestige position probably has more effect on law than a license (just an intuition).

"Hey, that guy worked with the author, and he was hired and now is a super top dog there... he must be the true genius behind it"

I mean that for ideas, not materialized code. You guys are so focused on small text files and miss the big picture sometimes.

Licenses are a small angle for those things.

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trelane1y ago

Look up the WRT54g sometime

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...

alganetOP1y ago

Is it USA courts only? If it is, it's the same as nothing for people like me.

Also, GPL is about source code, not ideas. Source code is not that relevant.

trelane1y ago

The WRT54g led to a variety of user-serviceable firmware worldwide, including dd-wrt and openwrt. It gave, and continues to give, new life to otherwise wifi devices that shipped with a abandoned propeietary software. It was a revolution in wifi router firmware, and still is.

It was created because Linksys shipped GPL code to customers but didn't provide the source.

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trelane1y ago

Look up the WRT54g sometime

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st...

alganetOP1y ago

Is it USA courts only? If it is, it's the same as nothing for people like me.

Also, GPL is about source code, not ideas. Source code is not that relevant.

trelane1y ago

It was created because Linksys shipped GPL code to customers but didn't provide the source.

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