Freecom violates GPL

[Hubert Figuiere]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 09:59 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:

>   This is what I don't quite understand.  Why are they having a hard
> time separating out their proprietary software from the GPLed
> software.  From a configuration standpoint, the difficulty doesn't
> make much sense, as I highly doubt anyone would have proprietary code
> sitting side by side and intertwined with an operating environment.

It sounds weird but it is actually the sad reality of life when
engineering does not take into account the licensing (treating
everything as proprietary). It happen in more companies that you might
think. It is not to excuse them, but that's how it unfortunately is.


Hub