Is linuxbios GPL ?

Peter Stuge stuge-linuxbios at cdy.org
Mon Sep 30 16:02:01 CEST 2002


On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Monday 30 September 2002 1:08 pm, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> 
> > Is the linuxbios code GPL?
> 
> Yes.   It says so in the file COPYING distributed with the source code.
[..snip..]

> However, all that said, I'm not aware of any instance where the GPL has
> been tested in court (or even "out of court" as they say) against a
> company accused of taking GPL code and developing closed source products
> from it.

Try XVID vs Sigma Designs, http://xvid.org/ and http://www.sigmadesigns.com/


//Peter



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