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Aug 6, 2007, 14:18

Kajetan

I think their explosion over at Slashdot is more about hating "the man" than enforcing what the GPL stands for. First, companies who are sueing everyone, who is or maybe violating their copyrights and licence agreements, don't give a shit, if they can use some code from some "long-haired" Open Source guys, ignoring the licence under which the code was released. So what? It's just some guys without a legal department and no money? What can they do? Second, the real reason for this "mistake" is the modified dosbox.exe, which required a function call to steam.dll. Prior to the GPL2 (DOSBox is released with GPL 2) you can do that, BUT you have to release the source code of this modifed version. Valve or ID do not want to release Steam function calls for a reason. That's ok. But then they cannot use software released under the GPL. It was not a mistake. Not at all ... This comment was edited on Aug 6, 14:19.

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