Gregory's Server@aeva VMWare has been sued multiple times over taking parts of Linux source code and integrating it in to their closed source software I guess
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@aeva Well, besides code availability it was also the fact that the code of the app that (statically) integrated the source was under a license which is incompatible. You can't integrate GPL code in any way with proprietary software according to the license, as the license is viral. Anything that uses GPL code needs to be licensed under the GPL as well.  @LunaFoxgirlVT right so was the source code available and simply under an incompatible license or was the source code also not available? @aeva in this case the Linux component was open source but the rest of their software was closed source. |
@LunaFoxgirlVT that would be an example of what I mean by involving source code availability