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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by davisr on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:14PM (#43785749)
On average, zero per day, maybe 5 to 10 per year.
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by zorked on Thursday April 24, 2025 @03:06PM (#43786291)
I'm really surprised that it's more than 1 ever.
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by mapmeld on Friday April 25, 2025 @03:12AM (#43791027)
At scale, there are a lot of confused people who do unexpected stuff. The maintainer of cURL has people contact him when a notice shows up in car software or when they think he is connected to hacking: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/02/16/why-is-your-email-in-... https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19/i-will-slaughter-you/
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by davisr on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:02PM (#43798482)
At FSF, someone would call every month thinking they had been "hacked" and that FSF was responsible because they found "evidence left behind" (the GPL).
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by pmkary on Friday April 25, 2025 @05:40PM (#43798806)
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