☝ License Compliance: Not An Open Source Problem

The New York Times featured the activities of the GPL enforcement community recently. While there’s a part of me that’s pleased there are people doing this, I’m concerned that their actions – and those elsewhere, such as the Linux Foundation‘s compliance programme – are the focus of public understanding about open source software. Of the [...]

☞ Gaming The System

When a company asks for your copyright “When a company says which of these conditions it will accept, that will show you how far it plans to depart from the principles of free software.” An interesting discussion by Richard Stallman that indicates he is still willing to tolerate copyright aggregation by corporations. The fact is [...]

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