[News] AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Apr-2004 20:09 GMT by Mikey C | 283 comments View flat View list |
Leuven, Belgium - April 16, 2004. Hyperion Entertainment and the Amiga OS 4.0 development team are extremely pleased and relieved to announce that after nearly 30 months of painstaking development the Amiga OS 4.0 Developer Pre-release has gone gold and will be sent to the duplication plant on Monday, April 19, 2004.
Full details on Amigaworld.net
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AmigaOS 4.0 Developer Pre-release goes gold : Comment 159 of 283 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Johan Rönnblom on 17-Apr-2004 16:26 GMT | The GPL is an extremely wide license. Because of this, the enforcement
of the license becomes very difficult. The Free Software Foundation
(authors of the GPL) cannot run around checking that everyone who uses
GPL software follows the license. It's even more impossible for them
to find out if people are using GPL software without telling.
Now, a license which is not upheld is worth nothing. If it was
generally known that you can take GPL code and use it like you want,
without any fear of repercussion, then of course people would no
longer use and trust the GPL. For example, companies like ID Soft
would not release one of the world's best selling games under the GPL.
Thus, it's not "harassment" at all that Bernie wants to check that
Hyperion are ready to fulfil their obligations as stated in the GPL.
And Ben has absolutely no reason to be upset about it - rather, he
should be happy that this is all he has to put up with in order to
obtain a license for one of the world's best selling games. |
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