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Just on your comment of legal support. One of his major complaints is that actually he is not getting the legal support he wants, and he thinks that he could do

• belorn 14y ago
  Is there a place where this complaint is posted? I know about the one time in regard to Werner Koch, and in which a legal problem arrived, and was subsequently fixed, but where FSF did not inform Koch about the fixing. To my understanding, that was a mistake in communication from FSF and was later resolved.
  • clinth 14y ago
    The clearest example is from the LWN article you referenced. > "Once a developer assigns copyright, they are at the mercy of the assignee to enforce the copyright. In this particular case, one can speculate that the failure to pursue the violation was likely a shortage of human resources. As Richard noted, "We have staff for GPL enforcement, […] but there are so many violations that they can't take action on all."" As the LWN article notes, statements like this are a huge distance between FSF in practice, and FSF's own reasoning behind assigning copyrights to it (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html). When a project has assigned copyright to FSF, the project workers have no recourse when the copyright holder opts not to fulfill its part of the bargain.
    • belorn 14y ago
      That is a general complain which has a general answer. If you let someone do your legal work, it might not be done with the same priority as if you did it yourself. But, general handwaving aside, has there been a case with GNU sed or gnutls in which the legal work was done in a less than satisfactional way?