[PLUG] Get the source code used in your Mercedes Benz car

Gaurav Pant gauravggs at gmail.com
Sun Sep 4 10:11:13 IST 2016


On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:56 AM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 4:31 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar
> <sudhanwa.com at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Looks like all Mercedes Benz cars use Free/Open source software to a great
>> extent.
>>
>
> Most companies have learnt the lesson from Linksys and DLink, (recall
> the FSF lawsuit on violating GPL with busybox usage.

Very interestingly many people in industry still think that software
under FOSS licenses, if misused  doesn’t attract penalty of lawsuit.

The issues is non of the colleges teach properly about Copyrights,
Licenses etc.  :(

>
> You will see GPL mentioned in many consumer products e.g. SONY TV.
>
> -- Arun Khan
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