[Eug-lug] Re: question for the fair folk?

[Ben Barrett]

Isn't that good for business though?  (ie, so business would want to use it)
And, strings only gives you a hint, showing only ASCII set matches, right?

<rant>
Binaries can be obfuscated fairly easily, either to disguise original source
or to give false impressions... if you've been computing for 10+ years
you've seen this change immensely.
IMO it shows the shallowness of some engineering & product development
cycles to see any violations caught by strings but I am glad for it.  Those
lazy bums....
Someone should make a sourceforge [meta]project for analyzing proprietary
code to scan for possible license violations -- it seems like the only way
open source can keep up, since there's not as much money to pay both
engineers and lawyers to take up the task.
</rant>

Sorry I went all tangential again :P  and BTW, haven't seen any final or
best word on the MS/ODF code issue...

   Ben


On 7/11/06, mage at chromebob.com <mage at chromebob.com> wrote:
>
> It really depends on a few things:
>
> 1) Is Microsoft distributing their code under their usual draconian EULAs?
>
>
> 2) Is Microsoft's work a derivative of the LGPL work, or does it simply
> link to it?
>
> 3) Are they including information that the code, or that parts of the
> code, is covered under the LGPL?
>
> 4) Are they making all LGPL parts readily available as a source-code
> download?
>
> Pretty much, as long as they aren't claiming that the LGPL code, or
> derivatives of it, belong solely to them, then they are not afoul of the
> license.  That's the thing that is sucky about the LGPL and why Ricky
> Stallman has been trying to get people to stop using it for the last 6+
> years.
>
> Chris
>
> On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 09:15:19 -0700, "Michael Miller" <
> mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't know if that is exactly legal.  MS is known for taking source
> > code and repackaging it.  Ever strings there TCP/IP stack or any of
> > the files in the Unix Services for Windows?
> >
> > On 7/11/06, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com > wrote:
> >> Not that I know of... I suppose that would be a good reason to use
> FLOSS
> > :)
> >>
> >> Did y'all catch the recent article(s) about MS and some OpenDoc-related
> > LGPG
> >> utilities which they included in an ODF plugin?
> >>  http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060709143240795
> >>
> >
> http://digg.com/software/Microsoft_Grabs_Some_Code_for_its_ODF_Plugin..._From_the_ODF_Fellowship
> >>
> >> cheers,
> >>
> >>      Ben
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/11/06, Michael Miller <mike.mikemiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > I guess on a side note.  Did you have a sign out at the fair that
> >> > exsplaned how Microsoft is droping support for Windows 98 and Me
> >> > today?
> >>
> >>
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