Not a bug report, but a possible severe LGPL violation of GMP

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Thu May 2 17:49:44 CEST 2013


On Wednesday 01 May 2013 23:56:50 Trent Creekmore wrote:
> I heard Mozilla was suing them for naming their product firefox.exe, etc.
> in order to gain trust of end users to execute their products.

that's a trademark violation, not copyright violation.  to be clear, using GMP 
in this sort of software isn't a violation by itself, but distributing 
binaries w/out releasing the source is (assuming someone with said binary has 
made a request for the source and been denied/ignored).
-mike
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