Australian Telco Telstra Complies With GPL

An anonymous reader writes "Late last year, Australia's biggest telco Telstra was sharply criticised for using GPL'd code in several of its new products — but not publicly distributing changes it made to the code when doing so. However, it looks as though the company has now come clean, publishing a source code CD of the files changed in its development effort and acknowledging the GPL and Lesser GPL. It's good to see companies responding to the open source community this way and engaging — makes a change from the past!"

Re:Wow indeed

[Anonymous Coward]

This is Telstra we're talking about. In case you're unfamiliar with them, anything less bad than them playing a quick game of puppy soccer before a meal of fresh baby's brains and an after-dinner act of fellatio of the busts of Mammon they keep behind their office cupboards, should be considered a miracle and reported as such.

I LOVE MY CAPS!

[Frosty Piss]

GPL: You need to comply only if you get caught!

On the other hand, are US Copyrights relevant and legally binding in Australia? Probably they are by virtue of treaties and such.

Seriously, not a troll, but what's the beef? We're lucky to see the CD at all...

Rather than raking Telstra over the coals for complying (albeit late) , maybe the more constructive thing would be to use it as an illustration to other companies as to how harmless it was to Telstra to comply - it did not hurt them competitively at all.

By giving Telstra POSITIVE FEEDBACK for complying, perhaps it will ENCOURAGE others to comply as well?

Of course you all can SHIT ALL OVER THEM and see how that works, as well...

Adhering to standards.

[Jarryd98]

I'd have to agree with the above comments. Telstra doesn't deserve any credit for compliance alone. It's expected. Many people seem far too willing to forgive/forget within a short period of time. They delivered what was expected of them after an extended period of inaction. That is all.

Re:"Engaging"?

[cheese_wallet]

If they complied from the start, there wouldn't have been any press at all. Now they have it.

Just like at most businesses, it's not the engineers who get it right from the start that get credit. It's the ones who screw things up and then heroically fix it later that get all the kudos.

Correct title:

[Ant P.]

"Telstra profits off software piracy for half a year without repercussions"