[License-review] For Approval: Rewrite of License Zero Reciprocal Public License

Kyle Mitchell kyle at kemitchell.com
Wed Nov 8 04:21:03 UTC 2017


On 2017-11-07 19:11, Bruce Perens wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Kyle Mitchell <kyle at kemitchell.com> wrote:
> > So is a five-line GPL sorting algorithm, linked into a
> > larger program using a package manager, and then
> > inadvertently conveyed out-of-house.
>
> I should address this one. I haven't yet met the court that would compel
> the owner of a large body of code to GPL it for such a situation.

Note sure where this points.  Do you think you've met a
court that would compel the owner of a large body of code to
release it Open Source after `l0rwc -l proprietary/**/*.c`?

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