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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 11:09 AM EDT |
They copy it from BSD. Different license.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, September 14 2012 @ 12:03 PM EDT |
I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft or Apple was copying code from mount
(and
other GPL tools) and using such code in commercial products ... but I
guess
we'll never know.
I would be very much surprised. They could
never allow that, because there would be people who know, and that would be an
incredible risk. If you do anything wrong, there are employees who know about
it, and some if these turn into ex-employees, and
then they have no reason to
keep their mouth shut. Where I work, if you tried to sneak in some GPL licensed
code into products that
the company doesn't want to publish under GPL, you
would be in deep trouble, and I would trust that is the same at any company
that has enough money to be sued. Can you imagine what the damages would be if
hypothetically RedHat could prove that MacOS X
10.8 (7 million copies
distributed so far) contained code that was illegally copied from RedHat? Or
Windows 7 with many million
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