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It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights
- wolverine876 5y agoThis is a consequential article. Does anyone know the source, Bradley Kuhn or the Software Freedom Conservancy? The names ring a bell. > We expect that you may be surprised by this, but we can tell you that: in private, companies that contribute to key copylefted projects are not so subtle. They have communicated to those of us in the GPL enforcement community on several occasions — a message delivered by many executives over a period of many years — that they would prefer both Conservancy and FSF to curtail, or outright end, GPL enforcement. Their view, as communicated to us, is that GPL enforcement causes customers to think copyleft is problematic. As one executive once said to me: “We consider it a failure if any customer ever even asks us if they have to worry about GPL compliance”.
- pabs3 5y agoConservancy are the primary enforcers of the GPL for the Linux kernel project and Bradley Kuhn has done a lot of that work within Conservancy and other orgs. https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/ https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/