No. 70: License Violations Likely to Cut Into Your Profits
A manufacturer blatantly violates the licenses of the FOSS components in its cars. Using the software and the car becomes illegal. The owner must not drive the car and files a lawsuit. Remedies of the legal defect include compliance, price reduction, replacing the car and sales reversal.
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The Yocto recipe gives GPL as the license of MariaDB. The Qt Sql library implements its MySQL driver with MariaDB. Hence, it would be under GPL - and so would be all applications linking Qt Sql. Businesses would have to open-source their code. A disaster! So, what's wrong?
No. 69: Who Defines Minimum Security for Default Products?
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