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The question isn't whether they should face liability or whether the company has problems to solve. The question is what specifically should the penalty be? If
by dataflow 5y ago
The question isn't whether they should face liability or whether the company has problems to solve. The question is what specifically should the penalty be? If you happen to ship any GPL'd code at any point with your product, must it necessarily always follow that you should be forced to release the source to everything else you happened to ship along with it? That's what people here want, and I'm pointing out it has a flip side to it that doesn't seem to be considered.
- michaelmrose 5y agoThere is no such situation possible. You can never be forced to release your code under a different license. That is merely one way to cure your infringement.
- nextaccountic 5y ago> If you happen to ship any GPL'd code at any point with your product, must it necessarily always follow that you should be forced to release the source to everything else you happened to ship along with it? The only thing that gives you any right to ship the code is the license, and you must always comply with the terms of the license, so.. yes? But here's the thing. GPL doesn't infect things that merely ship "along with it". For your entire software to be covered by GPL it must be a derivative work.