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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draftRe: How to get them to manufacture for us: An idea and a draft
From: Nix <nix_at_esperi.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:12:25 +0000 On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Björn Stenberg muttered drunkenly: > xx xx wrote: >> I was thinking in something like: The company ignores any licenses and >> RESTRUCTURES the SW. Afterwards it will probably be difficult to prove, >> that the original source was Rockbox.... > > I doubt most companies would want to spend lots of time and money only > to obfuscate the code. It goes against the purpose of saving money. I > have never heard of this happening to any project. Indeed: in the majority of cases of GPL violation with respect to GCC (which has GPL violation problems on a regular basis), the most that's changed is the name of the binary: all the strings are still there, and the --version switch generally still works, complete with the FSF copyright notice. This tends to be a bit of a downer for companies that claim that of course this isn't GCC they're distributing. There have been a couple of cases of companies going so far as to remove obviously incriminating strings from the source, but even there comparison of assembler proved the case well enough. -- `The game proceeds with people picking up cards in turn, and every so often this is punctuated with a church council when everyone goes mad and starts yelling and playing cards at each other and persecuting and making deals.' --- Jo Walton on _Credo_ _______________________________________________ http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/rockboxReceived on 2004-03-26 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |