What good is VNC's GPL?

[Sean Kamath]

[In a message on Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:15:08 CDT,
  Tim Meador wrote:]
>Actually, I'd like to see an anwer to this myself.  There was no
>attempt to clarify the use of GPL code, just a friggin' "It ain't none
>of your business, so shut up!"  Well, it IS our business.  The GPL
>license and enforcement of it affects all of us, not just programmers.

Sigh.  This list already has a pretty bad S/N ration, what with all
the Windows "I can't see my home box from grandma's" (because they
don't understand NAT/Firewalls).  Let's not go there with the GPL,
please.

For those of you Google-y challanged, here are some sites:

>From the horse's mouth:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

If you think there's been a violation:
http://gpl-violations.org/

If you want to read more about it:
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20050131065655645

If you demand having this sort of discussion, first read this:
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/0315241&tid=117&tid=156&tid=17

Then go here:
http://slashdot.org/

Can we move on to VNC issues, please?  Thanks.

Sean