This project is suspicious

Posted Dec 6, 2024 12:57 UTC (Fri) by swilmet (subscriber, #98424)
In reply to: This project is suspicious by coriordan
Parent article: Apertis v2024 released

Yeah, we can see that the project is driven by commercial interests (which is not bad per se).

But it comes up with a technical solution for something related to licenses and legal stuff. Instead, I would have preferred first a solution coming from lawyers, legal advice, finding arrangements with customers. Seeing if the GPLv3 is truly unacceptable for some customers.

Has the lawyer route been tried before, even if it's not the expertise of Collabora? Or are the customers too powerful to bend their decisions and their "fear" for the GPLv3?