From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:56:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170719115605.GA4353@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7121c12e-29df-8710-9357-bc9be078804a@online.de>
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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:20:31AM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:
[...]
> 2) the probability of involuntary license violations
To mitigate that, the FSF (and not only them) have a policy of
"patience": there are long, friendly negociations with violators
(often years!) before actually going to court. The aim is to
bring the violator into compliance, not to extort money from
them.
There are folks out there misusing the GPL (Patrick McHardy comes
to mind). As any sharp tool, the GPL (in conjunction with courts,
which are much biased towards "war") can be misused.
The solution to that is community action.
See https://lwn.net/Articles/694890/
Cheers
- -- tomás
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2017-07-13 17:16 ` Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 17:49 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-13 18:06 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:25 ` John Yates
2017-07-13 18:32 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 18:36 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 18:48 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:08 ` Karl Fogel
2017-07-13 19:11 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-13 19:42 ` Óscar Fuentes
2017-07-14 5:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-13 19:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-13 19:23 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 19:31 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-13 19:56 ` Filipe Silva
2017-07-13 20:07 ` Richard Copley
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-15 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-13 20:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-14 10:12 ` Yuri Khan
2017-07-14 12:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2017-07-18 6:16 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 7:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-18 17:04 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-18 17:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-07-19 3:32 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-19 9:20 ` Andreas Röhler
2017-07-19 11:56 ` tomas [this message]
2017-07-19 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2017-07-14 1:20 ` Richard Stallman
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