Castle Denies GPL Breach

Anonymous Coward writes "Castle Technology, who were accused of breaching the GPL in RISC OS 5, have made a press release denying the allegations. This story has been covered on The Iconbar RISC OS news and resource site." We've given Castle some loving here on slashdot recently. Looks like this one isn't going away quietly.

Not going away quietly

[sulli]

At least not until they change their name to GNU/Castle

Re:Not going away quietly

[eclectus]

At least not until they change their name to GNU/Castle

But then I'm sure someone is gonna sue them because they might be confused with a company with a similar [newcastlebrown.com] name.

Re:Confusion

[zcat_NZ]

The guy who originally wrote EMACS clearly didn't understand the GPL either. No FTP server; mailing out the source on Magnetic Tape for $100 a copy? Someone ought to be hassling him a bit more too!!

Oh wait.. that was Richard Stallman.

Re:Confusion

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Who is going to sue them? RMS??

RMS: Your honor, I move that the courts force Castle to open up their source code under the GPL provisions

Judge: Who the hell is this long haired freek in my courtroom? Go home and shower, when you come back we can talk.

Salem.. no wait, mccarthyism

[digitalsushi]

Some day when opensource is big enough, we'll be able to take down companies just by accusing them that they stole open source code. "We won't shut ya down if you tell us where the other Cappie bastards are! Admit it, they're all stealing source!"

An obvious scam

[dan g]

Clearly this is just the endgame of a clever get rich scheme. They anticipate that a butt load of /.ers will contact them looking for the source code. In a few weeks they'll stop answering their phones, their website will go defunct, and Castle will for all purposes seem to have disappeared. Coincidentally, in a few days after that the number of ebay auctions for blank floppies will go through the roof.

Re:If they want it over with...

[r00zky]

> I propose we kick their ass at this game.
I have another idea: STORM THE CASTLE!!!

Re:If they want it over with...

[Orne]

I knew there was a reason I kept all of those AOL floppies...

Re:Not going away quietly

[the way, what're you]

But GNU/Castle wouldn't be free as in beer, so I don't think the two would be easily confused.

Re:What's the punishment here?

[CoolVibe]

Nah, worse. Confiscate their loud hawaiian shirts. They'll never learn otherwise.

yeah I know it's cruel, but some things just _have_ to be done. If they still persist, we just _might_ think about making them use VB for kernel development.

*evil grin*

Re:The GPL is NOT airtight.

[MrEd]

At least, the BSD people have higher confidence in the moral values of men

suckers!

Re:Will this be the first GPL test case?

[God! Awful 2]

Yeah... lucky that *you* happen to know what's good for everyone. Hey Microsoft, you'll support the GPL if you know what's good for you. Hey RIAA, don't you know P2P is good for business? Hey Billy, eat your broccoli.

-a