http://lwn.net/Articles/15342/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The FSF GPL Compliance Lab". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/15560/rss 2002-11-14T15:30:03+00:00 dneto Sounds to me like some of the Lab's functions are similar to <br>parts of the Open Source Initiative. Note that the Compliance Lab<br>is (a) older, (b) more tightly focused on the GPL, and <br>(c) deliberately publicity-averse.<p>Both organizations appear to be quite useful.<br>The OSI is the noisy newcomer, and the FSFGPLCL (tee hee hee)<br>is the patient back-room operator. It's a bit like carrot<br>and stick (imperfect analogy, I know...)<p>I wish both organizations well. http://lwn.net/Articles/15501/rss 2002-11-14T02:00:01+00:00 chicks Maybe the next SEC will be the &quot;Source Exchange Commission&quot;. http://lwn.net/Articles/15435/rss 2002-11-13T18:45:41+00:00 ksmathers <em>He also states that companies which have violated the GPL and been brought back into line by the FSF should donate as well; that seems like a rather harder sell.</em> <p>It places your company at a competitive disadvantage to have to comply with the GPL if other companies are getting away with non-compliance. So it really is in the best interests of companies who are in compliance to donate to a fund like this, in much the same way that companies that maintain good accounting practices support the laws that require the SEC to investigate shady business practices, but complain about laws that prohibit American companies from giving bribes to foreign government dignitaries (where that law places US companies at a disadvantage.)