Re: [tlug] [not Linux related] Why Hollywood does break foreign films ?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Benjamin Tayehanpour writes:

 > If anything (and I may carry the analogue too far here) there's a
 > placental barrier between the two, as code for licence reasons
 > can't intermingle freely between the two.

Both can inherit from a permissively licensed code base (and do).

 > Or, depending on how you look at it, there's an osmotic one-way
 > barrier between the two since proprietary code can become GPL'd but
 > you can't legally turn GPL'd code proprietary.

You can, if you're the copyright holder.

 > On 12 August 2013 13:49, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:
 > > It may have been a troll, but the problem Bruno faces wrt to his
 > > movies is the same problem TLUG faces with respect to its favorite
 > > OS....
 > 
 > If the problem is really "the same", what is actually referred to is a
 > product of a company and not the company itself, as a film is a
 > product.

The similarity is that in both cases it's a PEBSAC, regardless of the
quality of the product.