Re:VMware joins Linux Foundation: what about the GPL?
by e12e on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @02:23PM
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I find this stance odd to say the least. I'd be happy to throw out copyright (and copyleft along with it) -- but to only enforce classical copyright, and not enforce copyleft? That's crazy.
Are you also advocating ignoring OS X license terms (ie: do you advocate running a bought copy of OS X in a vm on non-apple hardware to build iOS/OS X applications)? Pirate Microsoft Windows, SQL Server - or run Oracle databases without paying a license fee?
If not, I can't see how you can support not following the rather simple copyleft licenses. If a company don't want to leverage all the years of developer effort that is given away for free with the Linux kernel - they're free to invest the millions of dollars worth of work to write their own kernel. I mean, if a grad student could write the Linux kernel in the early 90s, surely VMware can write an OS kernel today?
Are you also advocating ignoring OS X license terms (ie: do you advocate running a bought copy of OS X in a vm on non-apple hardware to build iOS/OS X applications)? Pirate Microsoft Windows, SQL Server - or run Oracle databases without paying a license fee?
If not, I can't see how you can support not following the rather simple copyleft licenses. If a company don't want to leverage all the years of developer effort that is given away for free with the Linux kernel - they're free to invest the millions of dollars worth of work to write their own kernel. I mean, if a grad student could write the Linux kernel in the early 90s, surely VMware can write an OS kernel today?