Posts by Bjoerrn

Forget China and India, Sweden is tech's superpower

That's right

...except that Monty, the man behind MySQL, is Finnish. As is Linus Torvalds, although they both *are* Swedish-speaking Finns.

Google copyright purge leaves Android developers exposed

Yeah

"Problem is, it just doesn't work like that. Both products would be infringing."

Yes, they might both be infringing, but still, that does not cause the 3rd party components to suddenly fall under GPL, forcing the developers to release the source. Of course the 3rd party developers might have to relicense the component under GPL if they wish to continue distribution, but that's a different matter.

There is no viral effect

"This is about how Google took GPLed kernel header files and essentially created their libc from it. Applications linking this Google library will then also become GPLed."

No they will not. Distributing the GPL-violating library would certainly be a copyright violation, but no such automatic viral effect exists. This is a pretty common misunderstanding. So, there is no obligation for 3rd party developers to make their source code available, either.