Re: [LAU] Fairlight

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey@email-addr-hidden
> wrote:

>
>
> Please explain why it would be a negative thing for the Consortium to take
> on such a role?
>
> Would you prefer for random people with no specific affiliation to do the
> job or would you prefer for it to not be done at all?
>

They have no legal obligation to anyone except their customers. How does it
appear (and more importantly how does it help) if an essentially random 3rd
party weighs in? That's a genuine non-rhetorical question

There's no way to know, but its entirely possible that there isn't a single
modified line of any GPL'ed code anywhere in their system. They could be
running an entirely stock version of everything, and be under zero
obligation to do anything except include a small note somewhere to
customers that if they really want to download the source code to glibc,
the kernel etc, then look in the following places. This is precisely what
Apple does with Darwin, which includes quite a number of GPL'ed components.

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Received on Thu Oct 25 04:15:04 2012