VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation

Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by jordigh on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:11PM (#9153832)

Aside, shouldn't you be parsimonious with subscriber links for LWN and not post them publicly? I haven't had a LWN subscription in a while, but I really like their business model. I would not have posted this link myself.

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by lambda on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:21PM (#9153895)

No, the subscriber links are for exactly this kind of situation. They are to allow you to link to articles when it's relevant to a discussion, as long as you don't abuse them by doing something like posting a regular feed of all LWN articles or submitting every single one to Reddit/HN.

Jonathan Corbet, editor of LWN, frequently posts his own subscriber links to LWN articles:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=corbet

And has explicitly endorsed posting occasional links to HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688938

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by sanderjd on Thursday March 05, 2015 @06:53PM (#9154737)

Thanks for this comment. I have often wondered about this, and I'm really glad to discover that it's above board.

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by jordigh on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:31PM (#9153945)

Ah, I thought that might be the case. I wasn't sure. Thanks!

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Re:VMWare Taken to Court Over GPL Violation by JoshTriplett on Thursday March 05, 2015 @04:43PM (#9154016)

Reasonable question (and I don't think you should be downvoted for it), but no, LWN editors (including Jonathan Corbet) have explicitly said that they're very happy to see LWN subscriber links posted to social networking sites and discussion sites. The main thing they don't want to see is someone systematically posting links for every single subscriber-only article.

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