Perens Lashes Out at Claims GPL 3 Brings Legal Risks
Open-source developer and evangelist Bruce Perens has scathingly dismissed claims by a lawyer for the Association for Competitive Technology that the latest draft of Version 3 of the GNU General Public License brings legal risks.
"Let's make it clear that - ACT - is Microsoft's lobbying front and that they are going to paint as negative a picture as they can," Perens told eWEEK in an interview.
"Obviously, GPL software is displacing Microsoft enough to have them concerned, and it's doing it at customers who are important to them. A lawyer's job is to scare the other side if they can - because they know it's cheaper than winning a case in court," he said.
Perens pointed out that IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat and a couple dozen corporate attorneys have seats on the GPL 3 committees and are constantly evaluating any potential legal risk introduced by the drafts.
The Free Software Foundation declined to comment on ACT's legal assessment.
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