Re:Goldman Sachs Recasts Its Reputation to Woo Tech Talent
by icebraining on Friday November 14, 2014 @11:46AM
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What the cop believed sounds irrelevant; he went to court and was convicted (and the later acquittance was on a technicality).
The question of G.S. violating the OSS copyright is also not clear; usually, you can only violate copyright if you distribute software without a license. I'm not sure if removing the license on internal copies is legal, but no OS license I know of - not even the GPL - required them to share the changes back. I don't see any wrongdoing by GS part vis-a-vis OSS licenses, and as an employee, it wasn't his choice to make.
Do I think the law is harsh? Yes. Would I do the same as GS? Certainly not.
But as far as I'm concerned, he's conduct was in clear violation of the trust put on him as an employee (as he admitted), and it wouldn't influence my decision to join GS.
The question of G.S. violating the OSS copyright is also not clear; usually, you can only violate copyright if you distribute software without a license. I'm not sure if removing the license on internal copies is legal, but no OS license I know of - not even the GPL - required them to share the changes back. I don't see any wrongdoing by GS part vis-a-vis OSS licenses, and as an employee, it wasn't his choice to make.
Do I think the law is harsh? Yes. Would I do the same as GS? Certainly not.
But as far as I'm concerned, he's conduct was in clear violation of the trust put on him as an employee (as he admitted), and it wouldn't influence my decision to join GS.