[lugm.org] GPL is a thorn for business

[Loganaden Velvindron]

Of course. 


However, it's interesting to see one of the largest GPL vendor
trying to find ways to get a competitive edge over others. GPL
makes that hard.

A friend told me he asked 3 lawyers about a summary of GPL v3:
All of them came to different conclusions :-)

There's no point for a business to waste time & money with GPL, lawyers and
associated activities. There are alternatives which offer more freedom.



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From: Ajay R Ramjatan <ajay.ramjatan at gmail.com>
To: Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk>; LUGM Discuss Mailing List <discuss at lugm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 21:54
Subject: Re: [lugm.org] GPL is a thorn for business

What they do is provide full patched kernel sources instead of
individual diffs. Nothing illegal here.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 21:42, Loganaden Velvindron <gnukid1 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Redhat admits that it ``obfuscates'' patches to prevent
> Oracle/CentOS/Novell from offering direct support.
> http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5oOugqiyEjkJ:www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/03/04/red_hat_twarts_oracle_and_novell_with_change_to_source_code_packaging/+open+source+undercut&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=fr&client=firefox-a
> Once again, this shows the problem of the GPL: forcing
> people to redistribute their changes is a bad idea.
> By contrast, this problem is absent for companies like Juniper,
> who ship BSD-based derived OS. If they want, they can choose
> which patches they'd like to merge. This gives businesses a better
> control over their derivative work, which the GPL prevents.
>
>
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