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Re:The Day AppGet Died by colejohnson66 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:09PM (#23332209)
The GPL has been used successfully in courts of law. It’s not common as most violators just open source when called out, or settle when sued, but it has worked before. A famous example is D-Link using the Linux kernel in their routers. After a lawsuit in Germany, D-Link had to release their changes.[0]

I don’t understand this idea that a license that the author willingly released his code under is unenforceable, but EULAs are?

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20141007073104/http://gpl-violat...

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by tracker1 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @09:42PM (#23332479)
Of course with all/most US routers generally taking only signed ROMs, it's mostly useless to even have the code.

I wish they'd just create something closer to tomato than the flashy, less useful interfaces.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by colejohnson66 on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:43PM (#23332831)
That problem is called TiVoization. It’s addressed with the 3rd version of the GPL. Sadly, Linus is adamantly against that clause.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died by tracker1 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:12PM (#23344737)
Unfortunately, it's come out from the FCC, not just the hardware companies in this case, and it really sucks... Raally need to drain the swamp in the FCC.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died by chii on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:02AM (#23333259)
> Linus is adamantly against that clause.

oh i didnt know he was adamant against the clause - i thought that he didn't want to force it upon the many existing users of linux.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by colejohnson66 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:14AM (#23333322)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PaKIZ7gJlRU

He also has refused to release any of his projects under GPLv3 (or even “v2 or later”).

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by kasabali on Friday May 29, 2020 @03:29PM (#23354458)
Which is too bad because CDDL is compatible with GPLv3 thus that would make integration of ZFS possible
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