GPL - possible violation - what should I do?
Claus Färber
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Wed Mar 20 13:57:00 UTC 2002
Jan Wildeboer <jan.wildeboer at gmx.de> schrieb/wrote:
> Interesting - Free software can violate antitrust laws? Can you
> construct a theoretical example? Just curious :-)
Consider this: Apache changes the licence to GPL. As Apache has a
large market share, 3rd party vendors for WWW server solutions
would have to make their products compatible with Apache.
However, taken the GPL literally, they could not, for example,
write a plugin like mod_fancy_shopping_solution and release that
under a proprietary licence.
So proprietary software vendors could not access that market,
giving an competive advantage to Open Source software vendors.
Claus
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