Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

Subverting GPL

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-20 10:20

I have a few ideas, how legal are these:
1. submitting code requiring a 1000$ compiler or 1000$ language docs
2. submitting asm code as "source"
3. making deliberate errors in code or inserting bugs.
4. altering source code to make it look like line noise.
Not that i like to do any of this, just checking what is possible to do with my code.

Name: Anonymous 2011-09-22 5:55

There is a simpler way that I've seen used in the wild:
Create a server that contains the GPL'd parts, and a client that is closed source. If a server is too much work, just a separate executable (not a library). Publish server source code (modified or not) if it has to be ran locally, don't if it's done remotely.

AGPL can prevent this kind of abuse partially.

Newer Posts
Don't change these.
Name: Email:
Entire Thread Thread List