What good is VNC's GPL?

[Yann Renard]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Mark Jacobs wrote:
> 
>> http://www.planetdns.net
>>
>> This one looks especially bad - they are receiving rewards and making 
>> money out of, what looks like, Wez's work!
> 
> 
> Where is the evidence that PlanetDNS has VNC inside?
> 
> I'm interested in this issue because I'm not sure how we can demonstrate 
> that GPL'd code is inside the product if all we have are binaries.  Does 
> anyone know the answer?

Bugs are the key :)
Same bugs, same binaries, same sources...

> By the way, it is perfectly acceptable under the GPL for someone to take 
> your GPL'd work and make money from it.  The rule is that they have to 
> distribute the source with the product binaries.
> 
> Mike

Regards,
Yann