Re: GPLv3, was: Copying off Time Machine?

Chris Murphy <lists-zXQU9YWDTqjmlV4oE/1sFAC/[email protected]> Tue, 2 Oct 2012 11:13:59 -0600

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Let's change the subject since the subject has changed…


On Oct 2, 2012, at 7:02 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> Chris Murphy squawked out on Monday 01-Oct-2012@22:07:37
>> [1]  On Lion and Mountain Lion, rsync v2.6.9, circa 2006, is included and is f'n ancient, do not use, why bother include it, Apple? I get it, rsync moved to GPL v3 just like SAMBA did. Apple's vendetta against GPL v3 will cost us ever more good open source software via entropy.
> 
> What commercial OS products are using GPLv3?
> 
> GPLv3 was designed specifically to stop companies like Apple and Microsoft from including those tools.

CCC is commercial software. It includes a GPLv3 licensed version of rsync 3.0.9, and yet this does not stop them. How does it stop Apple?


Chris Murphy