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To be clear, it's not yet known for certain if the chilling effect of a terminated contract violates the "no further restrictions" clause of the GPL or not. Evi
by Arnavion 3y ago
To be clear, it's not yet known for certain if the chilling effect of a terminated contract violates the "no further restrictions" clause of the GPL or not. Evidently IBM's lawyers think it doesn't. But it would be good to test it in court first.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoGRSecurity started down this road. IBM though has deeper pockets
- bonzini 3y agoIt's not grsecurity's idea, it started on the 90s when Spender was in kindergarten or so. It's always been the way free software companies made money.
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- toyg 3y agoMore importantly, IBM has the best of the best in terms of lawyers. The likelihood of them ever losing a case is basically nil. They sustained and won a proxy war with Microsoft, when Microsoft was the richest company on the planet.