License Violation

The free software is not an anarchy where we could do what we want quite the contrary, A lot of free software communities have made an effort to transform their ideology in legal texts that could be valid for most countries. This is not a formality, with this legal texts we could protect the free software, because there are people who are interested in the destruction of free software, and others that want to use it as private software.

Unfortunately the license violation is usual, but not only in free software. Every time you are using a “cracked” program you are breaking the license. In free software the license violation use to be made by the companies, which use it to take advantage breaking the license. Sometimes event they sell or copy making money.

The free software foundation have a small guide of what to do if you discover that somebody is braking a free license:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html

If we will like to have a better free software in the future it’s important to meet the licensing and ensure other people do the same.

Remember, don’t forget to license your source code.