Re: GPLv3, was: Copying off Time Machine?
LuKreme <kremels-/[email protected]> Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:59:55 -0600
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Chris Murphy squawked out on Tuesday 02-Oct-2012@11:13:59 > 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 >> >> 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? You would need to ask Apple’s lawyers. I suspect the issue revolves around patents of which Apple has many and CCC has none. -- It was long ago and it was far away / And it was so much better than it is today