An interesting article about 'piracy' and GPL.

[KGIII]

I found it quite interesting.

Pirating GPL Software

Software piracy is the act of distributing software that one does not have the rights. For example, if I share a copy of Adobe Photoshop with you, then that’s obviously software piracy because I don’t have the rights to distribbute that software. Probably only Adobe does. I didn’t author it and...

krisives.github.io

A quote from the article:

That seems strange that elementaryOS developers would try to deny others the same rights that were essential in allowing them to make and distribute elementaryOS in the first place! I can see why they eventually gave up on this route since they didn’t have a leg to stand on to begin with. The whole thing seems very hypocritical and a slap in the face to the many Debian and Ubuntu developers that worked hard to make something everyone can use.

 

[Fanboi]

Good read. Though their models are counter-intuitive. They should learn from RHEL and Fedora. But trademark law is vastly different to copyright. I'm curious how Square (now Square Enix) pulled trademarking their name off.