> One problem is that large commercial programs are made by large teams
> of programmers. Some of these programmers may not understand the problems
> they may cause by including GPL'ed code. The companies legal department
> probably doesn't look through the source code.
>
> Now this company has released a commercial program that *should* have been
> GPL'ed.
>
> What should happen if they are "caught"?

Replace "GPL'ed" code with "MicroSoft Code" in the above and rerun it.
What do you think would happen? :-)

If you take out the GPL code and apologise profusely what do you think would
happen?
If you take out the Micro$oft code and apologise profusely what do you think
would happen?


        Russell McMahon

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