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Old 07-06-2010, 05:17 PM   #16
vicinc
Edge User
 
they locked also the GPL thread now while I was replying to Done. I hope you all enjoy the big brother Edge alienating users and programmer. Sorry but such practices are not better than Microsoft ones... So I choose the Edge for the wrong reasons, I am afraid. As I said while is up to them to release or not a SDK (not releasing is like cutting own roots) they MUST PUBLISH THE SOURCE CODE.
I will quote here something interesting, which I am sure they are aware but do not want to honor. SKYPE challenged this and they lost. What is the point of contacting via ticketing. The SOURCE MUST BE PUBLISHED. If this is not happening within a month I will start the process of taking them in to court. I am sorry, but this attitude towards enthusiastic and willing to help paying customers is not acceptable.
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"2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1 above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

...b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties under the terms of this [GPL] License.""

The phrase "work based on the Program" in section 2 of the GPL is further defined in the GPL. Such a work is "either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law: that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it, either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another language."

Section 2(b) of the GPL, in light of the definition of "work based on the Program," is sometimes described as "viral" or "infectious" because it affects any software, even the licensee's own software, that "contains or is derived from" the original GPL-licensed program. A licensee's own software, if it is a "work based on the Program," becomes subject to the terms of the GPL, thereby requiring the licensee to publish his or her own source code.
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