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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by rdtsc on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:16PM (#7578239)
It seems GS replaced license headers from files with their own license. Painting with broad brush strokes here, is stealing from a thief still stealing?
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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by dm2 on Saturday April 12, 2014 @12:34PM (#7578294)
After considering that some more, it seems like the court could (and maybe should) have ruled that it was simply a misunderstanding of the open-source code's license.

It seems like a waste of everyone's time to even pursue a case such as this after it's determined that the person didn't have malicious intentions.

Could the owner of the modified code successfully sue Goldman Sachs?

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Re:Excerpt from ‘Flash Boys’ about Serge Aleynikov and Goldm... by HeyLaughingBoy on Saturday April 12, 2014 @06:19PM (#7579421)
On what grounds? If it was GPL'd code and GS was conforming to the GPL terms, what are they to be sued for?
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