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There's plenty of enforcement precedent. The fact that big-pocket companies settle rather than go to court against the FSF says more than you think it does.
by fluidcruft 5y ago
There's plenty of enforcement precedent. The fact that big-pocket companies settle rather than go to court against the FSF says more than you think it does.
- Rochus 5y ago> There's plenty of enforcement precedent. Unfortunately not. There are some rulings on a few issues, but far too few to establish solid practice. > settle rather than go to court Unfortunately, this is a practice that is already known from the patent field, and which unfortunately also opens the door to trolls. Especially the big companies would have the necessary budget to have important license issues clarified in court. By the way, the FSF and others could also take legal action on various unclear points of their license, but they knowingly refrain from doing so because the risk is too great for them, too.
- fluidcruft 5y agoFSF and SFC take plenty of enforcement actions and are quite successful. You seem to be just spreading lawyer FUD.
- Rochus 5y agoThen maybe you can provide references to the leading judgments in matters of e.g. "Tivoization" or termination/reinstatement of the license.
- fluidcruft 5y agoTivoization doesn't violate GPLv2. It was one of the major motivations for GPLv3.
- detaro 5y agoWhy did you think the question was about rulings about GPLv2 and not GPLv3?
- Rochus 5y ago> Tivoization doesn't violate GPLv2. What makes you so sure? Do you have any supreme court rulings in this regards? Does your statement relate to the US only or to Europe as well? With respect to GPL3, on the other hand, one can argue with good reasons that "Tivoization" is allowed in certain cases (the license even makes explicit provisions); so here, too, appropriate judgments are needed to create legal certainty.