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In case folks here were curious, we at the Software Freedom Conservancy have asked the Plaintiffs to endorse the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL enforcement: https://sfconserv…

It seems to me that almost everything that needs to be said about the SS Public License has already been said. I have even posted twice about it (and related issues) myself a few t…

Note there are DMCA-like provisions enforced by trade treaties. And hosting in China has its own set of problems.

As the author, I can confirm I'm fully aware of the etymology of “A Modest Proposal” — my undergraduate degree included the Honors program in the Humanities and there are many prof…

Your life or death scenario is an edge case with its own special complexities which should not be lumped in with discussions of the vastly voluntary choices we can make. Karen's an…

I realize sarcasm is the "way of expressing things on HN", and I did some of it myself in a post upthread, but to get serious on norgie's point for a moment: I picked this specific…

I go to great lengths to buy clothes not made in sweatshops, actually. I admit I have some clothes probably made in sweatshops that I go second-hand. BTW, I've often been the only …

I posted my response on a blog post at: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-... TL;DR: while vmbrasseur of OSI does say "what's done is done" in comments he…

Hey, Tim, I've talked a number of times with GitHub about the issue of lack of nuance in their license monikers on GitHub. I haven't gotten very far, but this change will cause me …

Those who wish to learn more about copyleft after reading Ben's article may also want to look at the copyleft guide https://copyleft.org/guide for more information. Ben is a contri…

It seems that most commenting in this thread don't have not actually followed the complex political debate going on in the world of automotive industry adoption of FLOSS. Specifica…

I say clearly in the blog post that there is danger when you have software handle any life-critical service. The criticism I'm making in the blog post is the arguments by the auto-…

You're conflating a lot of different issues. Anyway, the example you started with would likely work similarly in the USA. You'd have to provide a lot more detail to actually show t…

The civil procedure example you're giving here is unrelated to rules of evidence (which are a proper subset of the rules of civil procedure). Also, note that the German courts aren…

It's always difficult to intuit what a Court needs ahead of time to understand these complex topics, particularly in a legal system without a discovery process (such as Germany). I…

Thanks so much for your kind words to Conservancy, martingxx and davexunit. Here's the Conservancy Supporter link for those who can afford to help: https://sfconservancy.org/suppor…

Here's a more recent announcement: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/

The biggest impact individual developers can make on all the points I raised is to keep their own copyrights on copylefted works and do not sign an employment contract unless it ex…

I always find it frustrating when people pontificate about how the GPL should work who have never done the hard work to enforce it (BTW, I'm always looking for volunteers who want …

Scripts doesn't necessarily mean software scripts; it could be a script as in a script for a play. If the BMW engineers memorized their lines and know how to do them, they have to …

As someone who has enforced the GPL for a few decades, I have to note the GPL compliance process isn't done here yet. Someone actually has to verify that the "scripts used to contr…

As someone who has enforced the GPL for a few decades, I have to note the GPL compliance process isn't done here yet. Someone actually has to verify that the "scripts used to contr…