And all of those freedoms are intact. Future business relationship with the company producing the software is not one of the those freedoms.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Forget about future vers; it's a distraction. If they said "if you exercise your rights under GPL, we'll kill a kitten" it'd infringe too.
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Replying to @RichFelker
They aren't saying that, it's an assumption we're making: if a company published it, they likely wouldn't continue to do business with them.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
As soon as that happens, or as soon as they in any way suggest that that might happen, there's grounds for litigation.
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Replying to @RichFelker
By Linux kernel developers, not the customer. There are no grounds for one of their customers to sue since it's not their software license.
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Replying to @CopperheadOS @RichFelker
Linux kernel industry standards and cultural norms are not the place to look if you're expecting such strong GPL enforcement...
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Replying to @CopperheadOS
Kernel developers are lax over inconsequential infringements like missing changelogs, wrong way of conveying src, unmodified use, etc...
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Replying to @RichFelker @CopperheadOS
I don't think that means you should expect them to tolerate production of a commercial closed-source derived work...
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Replying to @RichFelker @CopperheadOS
...especially by a party they have a long history of hostility with.
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Replying to @RichFelker
It's not closed source. Customers buy the source code. They don't purchase binaries. Public vs. non-public is irrelevant to the GPL.
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Sorry, I realized the term "closed-source" is imprecise. I meant it as "lacking the freedoms that define FOSS", not some other meaning.
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