LXer: McAfee Issues Warning Over 'Ambiguous' Open Source Licenses

LXer · 01-05-2008, 12:10 PM

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McAfee warned that license terms governing open source software "may result in unanticipated obligations regarding our products."

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easuter · 01-06-2008, 10:43 AM

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"Use of GPL software could subject certain portions of our proprietary software to the GPL requirements, which may have adverse effects on our sales of the products incorporating any such software," McAfee said in the report filed last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

LOL, maybe they should have thought about that *before* using GPL'd code in their proprietary software...

Hangdog42 · 01-07-2008, 07:41 AM

I've been reading about this and I still can't figure out McAfee's problem. Were they actually stupid enough to use GPL code in their software and not abide by the GPL or are they just spreading FUD about how viral the GPL is and any software that touches it suddenly becomes GPL licensed (which is simply not true)?