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Companies have a right to attempt to protect their IP
by derision 6y ago
Companies have a right to attempt to protect their IP
- thescriptkiddie 6y agoIP is theft
- saagarjha 6y agoAnd we have the right to blast them on Twitter for taking open source code and slapping their own license terms on it.
- avmich 6y agoThey however shouldn't break the law in the process. I am not a lawyer, but using gcc would require them to license products in GPL-compatible ways.
- rat9988 6y agoUsing gcc doesn't make your work gpl.
- ZirconiumX 6y agoDistributing GCC does.
- avmich 6y agoIn some sense, yes, using GCC puts limits on what you can legally do. The intent of those limits is well explained by Stallman. In case of API I highly suspect the intent is there. Now, how that intent is interpreted by reading GPL is another matter - though it would be sad to find a company abusing the legal system.
- RealityVoid 6y agoThis is unenforceable and what it does is alienate the open source community built around Lattice, that, I may say, has only helped their sales. Very short sighted move of them.