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This was really good advice. I've taken the liberty of posting a key quote from Linus separately. The SFC do a lot of important work and are currently struggl

by sjellis 10y ago

This was really good advice. I've taken the liberty of posting a key quote from Linus separately. The SFC do a lot of important work and are currently struggling for funding. They really don't need or deserve this kind of press. The SFC aren't trigger-happy, and only sue when every other avenue fails, which is actually one of the reasons that they are struggling, since they can't recover costs if the license violator eventually starts to comply, either avoiding a suit being filed, or stopping the suit before legal judgement. There have only been a couple of instances where actual lawsuits started.

cmurf 10y ago
Yeah I tend to disagree with absolutist positions, and Linus' lawyers are poisonous always position is just wrong. The SFC is more carrot than stick, and the suggestion the only right way to handle license violations is through carrot and honey all of the time is provably false. Stick has its role also, even if ideally, and apparently in practice, it's rarely used. So I think the blanket criticism of the SFC is misplaced.