On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 07:32:52PM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > Dual licensing is subtle, but doable. I'm not sure what "totaly > freeware" means from a license point of view, but OCO (more commonly > referred to as "binary only") is > *illegal*. http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html
Then kindly explain all of those Windows OCO drivers that people run. For example, WiFi cards. Or the device drivers for those USB "Skype" phones distributed by an Israeli company. Also note, he says he is not a lawyer, and to his knowledge no lawyer will PUBLICLY agree to what he says. He claims that a lawyer in confidence will support his position, but that's a empty claim, it simply can not be proven. In fact one could show several examples of where the GPL was ignored or flaunted. As I keep saying, one company did it and effectively no one cares. A few people on the project quit, but the source code is still being enhanced by the same people, who receive no compensation of their work, while the company that sold the source code made around US $10,000,000 last year. People on this list still use the product, sell their services to support it, and buy and sell their hardware. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel [EMAIL PROTECTED] N3OWJ/4X1GM IL Voice: (07)-7424-1667 Fax ONLY: 972-2-648-1443 U.S. Voice: 1-215-821-1838 Visit my 'blog at http://geoffstechno.livejournal.com/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
