[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
On 05/08/13 12:00, Philip Hudson wrote:
Interesting story.http://blog.garrytan.com/goldman-sachs-sent-a-brilliant-computer-scientist-to-jail-over-8mb-of-open-source-code-uploaded-to-an-svn-repo
quotewhat I find the most disturbing about the article is that goldman sachs allegedly removes the license headers from the source code and replaces it with their proprietary license. Thus they void all rights to the open source code in the first place.
Also if the open source code was GPL'd (which the article suggests), then it becomes questionable whether or not Goldman Sachs were even legally permitted to use the source code.
unquote -- James Kilty www.jameskilty.co.uk www.cornwallbuddhists.org arobuddhism.org -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq