Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight

Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by ferzul on Sunday November 17, 2019 @05:14AM (#21557281)

if they offer it under gpl, it's no poison chalice. why do i care who does the right thing? what's good is good.

i would be more worried when they propose that we all abandon this adequate gpl tool for this permissive licensed code they seriously didn't write, but here's ten fantastic contributions they made.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by pjmlp on Monday November 18, 2019 @02:20AM (#21562503)

It is not about being a posion chalice, rather the attitude of wanting to nuke company X, while accepting whatever it gives as gratis contributions.

I only see that among FOSS folks, seldom among other kinds of activism.

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Re:Supreme Court to Hear Google-Oracle Copyright Fight by monocasa on Monday November 18, 2019 @12:44PM (#21566331)

Because of the nature of the GPL. You don't get those guarantees in most other forms of activism.

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