Re: Another GPL violation settled

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> It is amazing how warped Freetards minds are when it comes to
> imagining GPL "legal" victories.

It's not precisely a legal victory. It's merely putting a stop
to a copyright infringement.

> Anyone who is neither blind nor an idiot understands that "... the
> Nintendo Wii SDK explicitly prohibits the use of open source software
> ..." means exactly what it says. GPL, BSD, Apache, Artistic license or
> any other open source code is explicitly prohibited. The only power
> of the GPL is its ever present stench of bullshit.

No. GPLed code was incorporated into a program which was then
distributed without honoring the license. Since the distributors
are bound by another agreement not to honor the GPL, as a result
they may not distribute the program at all, and that is precisely
what they acknowledge and agree to do. That is the power of the
GPL - software covered by it cannot be incorporated into non-free
software.

This case is another example of the GPL working as intended.