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Sony caught violating GPL (General Public License)

The Inquirer - Nick Farrell, Wednesday, 28 November 2007:

"Open sourcer, Alexander Strange was snuffling around the European release of the game ICO when he noticed new files SRCFILE.TXT and TRFILE.TXT and had a look at them.

In amongst the tangled code were bits of the GPL library libarc for compressed data handling.

Sony, which is a big champion of protecting creative rights, has failed to credit the code's author or mention libarc or the GPL."

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PimpHandHappy - 749 days 1 hour ago

1 - lol

is the like a counter to all the MS lawsuit news we have been seeing here?

anyway i dont understand because when i read "In amongst the tangled code were bits of the GPL library libarc for compressed data handling" i kinda feel stupid and dont understand the big deal here...

i will check back for enlightement in a few

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jaja1434 - 749 days ago

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Basically its the same as when you write a paper. You have to cite your sources and any quotes you use have to be credit to whoever said that.

The same thing goes for coding. If I used this bit of code that someone else wrote in my program, I would have to credit them for writing such code. After all its the least you could do.

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1.2 godofthunder10 | 748 days 10 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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Darkiewonder - 749 days 1 hour ago

2 - LOL the Inquirer

I'm going to sit and watch how this goes :o

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solar - 749 days ago

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this article is right next to the britney spears marries walrus story.

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YoMeViet - 749 days 1 hour ago

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Wow the author of the article sure sounded pissed at Sony, just read the first sentence of his article...

"MAKER of exploding batteries, Sony has been illegally dipping its toe into Open Sauce code libraries to build a PS2 game."

And LOL at this part

"On some of the boards there is talk that if Sony are caught breaking the GLP it might have to open sauce the whole game."

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jorellpogi - 749 days ago

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I thought The Inquirer articles are non-fiction. :)

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Ju - 749 days ago

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If they at least would understand what they were talking about. I would really like to see that "open sauce" game. Didn't know that code is made of sauce.

Also, even if he's right, what does that say about Sony's (or whoever wrote ICO) possible agreement with the author ? That Strange guy couldn't get a hold of the original author, so that's just flamebait, ain't it ? But then, I didn't understand that fully. He found two text files of libarc, or hints, that actual libarc code was used ? Without permission. Well, if true, guys, get your licenses sorted out straight (Yeah, you guys @ Sony).

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xionpunk - 748 days 23 hours ago

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Wasn't Ico released like 6 years ago? Its weird that he even found this (if it really is anything).

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DrPirate - 748 days 23 hours ago

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Wow...I really don't see the point of htis article, or it's relevance.....

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Azurite - 748 days 23 hours ago

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ICO getting some well deserved attention can only be a good thing. :)
If you haven't played it; do!

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nirwanda - 748 days 10 hours ago

9.1 - how can anyone disagree

ico's a great game

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Fanboy Slaughter - 748 days 21 hours ago

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*sigh* figures, some geek goes snooping around the code for a game that's almost 7 years old and just NOW finding this.

Need I re-iterate that the game is older than dirt? Albeit a great game that does deserve to be played, but nonetheless, I love how everyone's just jumping to conclusions like they always do because they're too stupid to see the whole story.

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Lumbo - 748 days 15 hours ago

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Considering that the libarc is not even released under GPL, i fail to see anything of interest here. Typical "TheInquirer" made up and warped out of context stuff ....

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Bullseye - 748 days 10 hours ago

12 - True or false

on this occasion, i don't know. However there's no doubt that many huge companies seems to live by the old adage 'Do as we say, not as we do'. Root kits anyone?

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Relientk77 - 747 days 17 hours ago

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Sony why did u get caught?

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