10-13-2013, 10:58 PM
(10-13-2013, 06:43 PM)txczwgffr Wrote: No one is going to help defend license violations on proprietary code except lawyers the copyright holders pay themselves.
and no one is going to go chasing down GPL violators who live in a third-world country and are not readily identifiable. the GPL or any other open source license would be unenforceable in this situation.
(10-13-2013, 06:43 PM)txczwgffr Wrote: And if you don't think free software projects can be micromanaged I wonder if you have ever been very involved with them?
micromanaging an open source project -- especially a popular open source project -- rapidly becomes a full-time job. the larger the project becomes, the more of a time-suck it becomes for the BDFL.
again, if you want something that's open source, try hashkill or john the ripper.