POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : GPL to be tested : Re: GPL to be tested Server Time
19 Apr 2024 22:00:16 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GPL to be tested  
From: Jim Henderson
Date: 31 Aug 2021 11:36:46
Message: <612e4c8e$1@news.povray.org>
On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 13:15:09 -0400, Dick Balaska wrote:

> On 7/23/2021 3:35 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Jul 2021 21:14:43 -0400, Cousin Ricky wrote:
>> 
>>> Stockfish is suing Chessbase for using and modifying Stockfish's chess
>>> engine in violation of the GPL license.
>>>
>>> https://wpguynews.com/stockfish-contributors-sue-chessbase-for-gpl-
>> violations/
>> 
>> Not the first time, not likely the last.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation
> 
> I didn't realize SCOTUS had overturned Oracle v. Google re: copyrighting
> Java APIs.

Yeah.

And SCO v. IBM had an update *yesterday*.  Looks like there's a $14.5m 
settlement that's about to be approved.



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"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw


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