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Quotes of the weekQuotes of the weekPosted Mar 29, 2007 1:49 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)Parent article: Quotes of the week
> "...we really need to do something about companies that violate the kernel's GPLv2 license." -- Greg KH
What about public humiliation? Post infractions on kernel.org/violators, remove them when the companies return to compliance. Maybe commission a small mailing list to maintain that page?
I'd volunteer. It's a worthy cause.
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Quotes of the week Posted Mar 29, 2007 2:45 UTC (Thu) by timschmidt (guest, #38269) [Link] Seconded. At the very least, a good first step.
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 29, 2007 3:20 UTC (Thu) by JohnNilsson (guest, #41242) [Link] Create a whole community project around it. That is keep a public record of everything regarding the cases like mail exchanges, compliance issues and so forth. If private pressure fails, publish the communication and begin public pressure keeping a record of whats being said and done on either side, if that fails continue to litigation.
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Quotes of the week Posted Mar 29, 2007 6:17 UTC (Thu) by bangert (subscriber, #28342) [Link] Harald Welte has been doing exactly that for some time now:http://www.gpl-violations.org
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 29, 2007 17:00 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link] Greg has also posted about this on his blog, going into further details about how one could handle this mess.
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 29, 2007 23:47 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link] You mean like the BusyBox "hall of shame"?http://busybox.net/shame.html Which was up for something like 5 years and DIDN'T WORK? Which is why we asked the Software Freedom Law Center to actually sue people on our behalf? (Which they do for free. Quite nice of them.)
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 2, 2007 9:09 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Yeah. It sort of makes sense that it doesn't work: if people don't care about the license of your software, it's unlikely that they'll care about you complaining about it either; and if they don't even realise what the license is, they probably hardly ever (or ever at all) look at the website anyway (I'd not be surprised if some of these embedded vendors grabbed a copy of busybox / uclibc years ago and never refreshed it; stability matters to these guys, after all).
It was a nice idea, but I can't see how it could work, even though I wish it did.
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 30, 2007 7:24 UTC (Fri) by grouch (guest, #27289) [Link] It would be handy to have such a list in one place.There is another penalty on those companies -- they miss out on some sales. I have a stack of nVidia cards, purchased in ignorance long ago, which is gathering dust. The replacements have all used free drivers. Before I go to buy a device, I check to see if there is free (libre) code to support it. If the developers are complaining about the vendor fighting their efforts, that vendor is off the list. Manufacturers cannot compete for my money unless they assist the coders who generously share their work with us all. Don't bite the hand that frees you. :)
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 30, 2007 19:08 UTC (Fri) by dirtyepic (subscriber, #30178) [Link] one grain of sand in a sandstorm man.
Quotes of the week Posted Mar 30, 2007 20:35 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link] No single raindrop thinks it's responsible for the flood.
Quotes of the week Posted Apr 4, 2007 4:06 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.(Sorry, had a Kosh moment there. :-) ) Greg
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