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…
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> On Oct 2, 2012, at 7:02 AM, LuKreme wrote:
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>> Chris Murphy squawked out on Monday 01-Oct-2012@22:07:37
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>> What commercial OS products are using GPLv3?
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>> GPLv3 was designed specifically to stop companies like Apple and Microsoft from including those tools.
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> 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.

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