Another GPL win in Germany [LWN.net]

Another GPL win in Germany

Posted Sep 26, 2006 14:31 UTC (Tue) by pcampe (subscriber, #28223)
In reply to: Another GPL win in Germany by laf0rge
Parent article: Another GPL win in Germany

>We currently have 185 open tickets (i.e. reported GPL violations) at
>gpl-violations.org.

I'm not sure to understand of what you define as a ticket, as it seems to me that the only way to report a violation is a message on the mailing list, not a ticketing system.

>You cannot expect us to respond to every case within the short time of
>something like a month.

I did not ask for a respond, I understand that an answer takes time and resources, my point it that my e-mail didn't get published in the mailing list as is still pending for approval, and this because I am not a mailing list member, not for legal reasons. I think that if the mail is published, you can get in touch with other people who use the same software and they might be of help in analyzing it, pressure the "author" and so on, otherwise is more a private conversation.

Surely, this kind of community may work differently than the average FLOSS one, it's more legal than technical, and this makes your work unvaluable.

But, please start to think if this is the best method to get critical mass, because when the-average-floss-advocate sees that the violations mailing list has about 5 mail per month he may think that there are not violations, and not need of help.

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