SONY STEALING CODE FROM OPEN SOURCE COMMUNITY?!
di Frankie (11/29/2007 - 15:24)

(Astrange via TheEnquirer.it) Just when gamers were going to respect again (I'm talking from a Japanese point of view here) the Playstation brand turn out that ICO programmers used without permission GPL code from the library libarc that handles compressed data. This isn't a big problem in terms of code — the two files from libarc used are under 1500 lines put together, and one is a heavily-edited copy of inflate.c from zlib, which is public domain. But, it's a GPL violation, and they need to fix it...




