[Gllug] ipv6

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

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.

-- 
Bruce

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