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FSF and SFC take plenty of enforcement actions and are quite successful. You seem to be just spreading lawyer FUD.
by fluidcruft 5y ago
FSF 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.