[ILUG] open source article

[Martin Feeney]

On 16 Mar 00, at 11:11, Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T wrote:

> Is John Carmak still going ahead with his case?  Can't remember what the
> full details were about this.  Can someone give us a refresher?

The Quake Source has been GPL'ed.  Someone was creating a project based on 
the Quake Source and refused to release the source.  John Carmack promised 
to hire as many lawyers as needed to loan out to the GNU project to pursue 
the case. A bunch of slashdotters also jumped on the offending 
individual's website and killed it.

I have no idea how the case has been going since then (about 3 weeks ago) 
but all the people involved are very serious about the GPL so I think it 
will work out in favour of the FSF in the end.