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On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Anyway this situation is completely different. Fairlight are shipping

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> products that already use Linux software. They have a legal obligation

> under the GPL.

To you? Are you their client?
>> Out of curiosity, why is it that every time some vendor makes use of

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>> free software, the first reaction is "hey, release source code"?

>>

>> Is it the only thing that interests you?

>>

>

> No one did anything about Korg or Yamaha for all these years. What makes

> you think that it's everyones first reaction?

What makes you think I was referring to either Korg or Yamaha?
> Look at Groove OS too. Rui and Christian fed back a huge amount of their

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> code into their existing open source solutions so nobody was upset if

> Lionstracs didn't publicly release all their code in a single package.

They still have the obligation, as you've just said yourself. You

might as well go after them. Or are we back to the old tried double

standards? :)
> In this case Fairlight may just not be aware of their explicit legal

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> obligations. No one knows unless they ask. I don't see any harm if, for

> example the Consortium sends a generic letter by email and physical copy

> alerting them of their legal obligations and outlining the positive

> aspects of doing the "Right Thing" (tm)

That would be very nice and human. 
Alexandre Prokoudine

http://libregraphicsworld.org

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