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This is not hijacking at all. They created a new account, the old one remains blank as the author says. Sure it's morally questionable and leads to having a v
by jakejake 11y ago
This is not hijacking at all. They created a new account, the old one remains blank as the author says. Sure it's morally questionable and leads to having a very bad reputation. But it's not hijacking. GPL code can be forked, mirrored, bundled and distributed. As long as the terms of GPL are obeyed there's nothing technically wrong with what SF is doing.
Of course they've completely blown all trust and squandered their reputation.
- Kim_Bruning 11y agoThey may well be GPL2/3 section 2a/5a (prominent notice that they have modified the program... in this case the installer) , and likely 2b/5b,c also (are they also providing the source code for the crapware?). If these are found not to apply (because the court finds it to be mere aggregation ) we may need a minor GPL update :-) Alternately one could look into trademark law, perhaps?