[Gllug] ipv6

[Peter Childs]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 itsbruce at uklinux.net wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:08:28AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > There are some dangers with this: firstly China, Taiwan and Japan are
> > an odd group of countries to be cooperating with each other.  Secondly
> > China in particular might not feel compelled to donate code back as
> > required under the GPL, and there would be very little anyone could do
> > about it if they didn't.
> 
> The only people this would be likely to hurt would be the GPL violators
> themselves.  They immediately lose the benefits of collaboration and if
> in the process they create a significantly divergent system then they
> are faced with the ongoing work of either porting or reimplementing a
> huge amount of code themselves.  Either they recognise that there is no
> gain in this and play fair or they shoot themselves in the foot.
> Meanwhile, Linux (and the rest of the open source world) is big enough and
> ugly enough to carry on without them.
> 
	Fine, Fine, Fine, what does playing fair mean?

	SCO, MySql...... `

	The legal side always confuse.

Peter Childs


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