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An org's commitment lasts longer than any individualAn org's commitment lasts longer than any individualPosted Dec 23, 2012 16:43 UTC (Sun) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459)In reply to: An org's commitment lasts longer than any individual by bkuhn Parent article: GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance
Well, that organization may be commited to free software but that does not mean their actions are appropriate. It doesn't help to enforce the GPL if more and more projects are turning away from copyleft. Meanwhile, a major part of the world's Linux installations are not under the GPL (except for the kernel) but under more permissive licenses (Android); or used without FSF copyrighed GPL code (almost all embedded Linux systems).
I consider it more important to decide on a useful strategy to foster the use of copyleft code. Recent pejorative comments from RMS about projects helping to migrate from Android to Cyanogenmod are doing exactly the opposite: they drive user, willing to go for more freedom, permanently away from free software. The gcc/LLVM case will even be worse if you look a few years in the future after many students have learned to hack LLVM instead of gcc.
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An org's commitment lasts longer than any individual Posted Dec 27, 2012 22:17 UTC (Thu) by gerv (subscriber, #3376) [Link]
"It doesn't help to enforce the GPL if more and more projects are turning away from copyleft."
And it doesn't help copyleft if lack of enforcement means that it's functionally equivalent to BSD.
Gerv
An org's commitment lasts longer than any individual Posted Dec 28, 2012 8:06 UTC (Fri) by dd9jn (subscriber, #4459) [Link]
Who was talking about not enforcing the GPL? The FSF seems to have problems with that but there are other groups who successfully go after violations.
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