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by bkuhn 4y ago
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://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/04&#x2
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by bkuhn 6y ago
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 times: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2
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by bkuhn 6y ago
Note there are DMCA-like provisions enforced by trade treaties. And hosting in China has its own set of problems.
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by bkuhn 6y ago
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 professors who would be aghast if I'd forgotten. I cho
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by bkuhn 7y ago
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 and my 2019 FOSDEM keynote (and accompanying podcasts)
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by bkuhn 7y ago
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 issue to speak out on for two reasons: (a) a
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by bkuhn 7y ago
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 one at FOSS conferences raising the issue that t-shirt
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by bkuhn 8y ago
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 here, I th
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Conservancy Applauds Linux's Promotion of Principled Copyleft Enforcement(sfconservancy.org)
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 of course to raise it again. As others have comme
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 contributor to the copyleft guide, so we&#x2
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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. Specifically, the automotive industry has made a series of argum
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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-industry and their providers that FLOSS is inherently
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 the the difference that it seems you're tryi
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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't common-law based, and don't follow the ru
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 prepared the following in that effort: https:/&
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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/supporter#annual As I said in my LCA 2016
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by bkuhn 10y ago
Here's a more recent announcement: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 explicitly allows you do to that . Developers have more lev
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 to help in the really really boring work of enforcing t
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 write out those lines as a requirement of the GPL. Th
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by bkuhn 10y ago
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 control compilation and installation of the executable
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by bkuhn 11y ago
I wrote this Requiem for Ian Murdock https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/dec/30/requiem-ian-murdo...
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by bkuhn 11y ago
Please send a copy of the manual and specific details of what you tried to receive source code from DirecTV to <compliance@sfconservancy.org>. Note that GPL doesn't require "putting the source online" necessarily, but t
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by bkuhn 12y ago
> It is sad to see how often forks go downhill As can be seen in my blog post and various talks in the subject, the Kallithea community faced two choices: a fork of only the GPLv3'd components, or a lengthy GPL enforcement battle wi
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by bkuhn 12y ago
It's odd you keep saying "all open source lawyers" agree with you, because I can't figure out who you could possibly mean. Like, which specific human being do you believe agrees with you? I've studied copyleft alm
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by bkuhn 12y ago
I would expect that most users of software that violates the GPL are not lawyers, so I don't see how your statement "in the end you're only helping lawyers" could possibly be correct: enforcement to gain compliance is ne
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by bkuhn 12y ago
DannyBee, I have stayed mostly silent on this thread (given my direct involvement with the Conservancy and the lawsuit in question), but I'd like to draw your attention to copyleft.org's details regarding this issue: https:/
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by bkuhn 12y ago
I don't see in there all the accounting configurations you'd need to integrate that with Conservancy's accounting system, nor all the legal research to figure out how it impacts Conservancy's Form 990 filings, nor all th
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by bkuhn 12y ago
I think you'll find that it's very difficult to set up other payment options with 100% Free Software. If Conservancy were willing to use proprietary software on our website for payment options, we could probably implement others

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