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OLS: Enforcing the GPLOLS: Enforcing the GPLPosted Jul 28, 2004 8:57 UTC (Wed) by pm101 (subscriber, #3011)In reply to: OLS: Enforcing the GPL by piman Parent article: OLS: Enforcing the GPL
>I doubt that. Debian probably has much more experience with global legal Eben is one of the top law professors in copyright law in the nation. He specializes in copyright. He's brilliant. I understand debian-legal has law students. Nevertheless, there's a bit of a gap between a law student and a famous law professor. >"political/tactical situation" -- are you trying to imply that RMS good at I don't see why this matters, or should even be brought up. RMS is head of the FSF, and he's a very smart guy. He knows he's not good at some things, and very good at others, and he knows how to delegate. RMS isn't the best person to negotiate a delicate situation, but Eben is. Eben is brilliant at this sort of thing, and he's the FSF's lawyer, so he handles it. >The Free Software Foundation has the longest standing experience in dealing Actually, they are. You assign them the copyright (so they have the legal standing to deal with it), and they will deal with it. In general, the FSF has been very prompt at responding to me in the past (e-mails to RMS or Eben get a response in 24 hours, usually). >The FSF have already shown themselves untrustworthy with their continued >pushing of non-free licenses like the GNU FDL. If I want the best for my >GPLd software, I will pursue my methods of dealing with infringement, that >do not involve an irrelevant third party like the FSF. Fair. Your choice. Many people don't have the time and money to do this. If you do, more power to you. No reason to bash the FSF.
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