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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 11:25 AM EDT |
Obviously, they send you the source code in a ROM chip embedded in a non-dud
cruise missile...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 01:08 PM EDT |
1) How would you know it has GPL code in it?
2) Getting hit by a dud missle can be just as bad.
Fast + heavy - bomb_explosion = much damage regardless.
3) I am definitely not so important that I would be a target
anyway. Probably more likely to get hit by a meteorite.
Without GPL code, I might add.
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| Authored by: celtic_hackr on Tuesday, June 12 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
Assuming you didn't get hit with it, and the impact of flying at 17000 mph
doesn't destroy the components, and you are able to salvage the entire codebase,
and you've managed to decrypt the encrypted code by RE the custom hardware and
firmware, then yes you can ask for a copy of the GPL software.
At which point having located your exact delivery address, a new copy will be
sent to you. Enjoy.
Of course, if you were actually able to do all that it'd be far safer to just do
a trivial decompilation. All the hardwork would already be done, and
decompilation is fairly simple. The reason people in the software business don't
do it is because of copyright liability. You don't want to contaminate your code
with copyrighted code. You might get sued. If you don't understand this concept
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 01:47 PM EDT |
- The GPL would only apply to a subset of the device, probably only a subset of
the software. Possibly as small as the linux kernel with drivers for the
hardware. A lot of software doing the really interesting work may not be
covered.
- Digging a little deeper, "Linux ground control software" doesn't
sound like it would be installed on the missile itself.
- If someone shooting a missile at you doesn't comply with the license terms,
what are you going to do, shoot a missile back?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, June 13 2012 @ 09:52 PM EDT |
| Well, now you've opened a topic. As it happens,
there is a really good article by Heather
Meeker,
who was on the Google team in Oracle's fiasco,
in the latest issue of
International Free and Open Source Software Law Review. It's titled, "The Gift
that Keeps on Giving – Distribution and Copyleft in Open Source Software
License". She explains in both GPLv2 what distribution means and for GPLv3 what
conveying means, in the US context of distribution in copyright law.
Given this
thread, I guess I should put it in News Picks, huh? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 14 2012 @ 11:36 AM EDT |
| In US of America Linux distributes you. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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