Re: FRR package in Debian violates the GPL licence
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 02:22:08PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> 3. People took the code of (2), and adapted that code - extensively and
> explicitly - to make use of and rely upon the facilities of the code
> of (1); facilities which were missing in the code of (2).
>
> The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, 6WIND, Big
> Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal reality that the
> code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the code of (2), and refuse to
> honour the conditions required by the GPL - see David Lamparter's mail.
Well, that's more complicated than I've thought. Under my point of view,
those companies are right, sorry to say that.
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