Re: [LUG] The dangers of proprietary

[James Kilty <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/08/13 12:00, Philip Hudson wrote:
> Interesting story.
>
> http://blog.garrytan.com/goldman-sachs-sent-a-brilliant-computer-scientist-to-jail-over-8mb-of-open-source-code-uploaded-to-an-svn-repo 
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what I find the most disturbing about the article is that goldman sachs 
allegedly removes the license headers from the source code and replaces 
it with their proprietary license. Thus they void all rights to the open 
source code in the first place.

Also if the open source code was GPL'd (which the article suggests), 
then it becomes questionable whether or not Goldman Sachs were even 
legally permitted to use the source code.
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