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Comment by pierat | Hacker News Reader

The fine? Cool. Whatever.

I want the whole source code published. That would be a real punishment - your proprietary code is now GPL'd.

As someone who worked at Orange, I’m not sure you want to read all of it. There’s definitely some getting-the-internet-to-work magic in there, but a lot of it is… Let’s just say not every developer is incentivized to write good code.

So it remains a valid punishment for Orange (unfortunately also a punishment for people who read that).

That could also be leveraged to find security issues, that can be interesting in an auth system.

I'm curious if sudden public visibility would lead to security issues being found faster by people trying to patch them or exploit them.

That really describes the state of the art in software. Don't bother trying to cover up the fact that you're normal and just like everybody else.

Are you the user? The user is entitled to the source acvording to GPL.

This raises the question whether a third-party (potential) beneficiary can claim the source when the GPL code is not released to the user.

This has been discussed (on HN) with the recent Vizio judicial ruling.

For instance see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082722

(there might have better links)

I guess in some jurisdictions a judge could order source code publishing as a punitive measure?

The user is the French government who contracted Orange to build its portal and Orange forked the Lasso single-sign-on library without respecting the GPL or buying the proprietary license on offer.

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