FSF reboots its High Priority list with a grant and call for input

imho besides the projects trying to replace non-free software, transparent legal support needs to be done. FSF indeed goes after the bad guys who fail to respect FOSS licenses, but we have no automagic protection against our innocent failures.

Coming from Debian developer perspective of view:
Licenses: FOSS world is full of different licenses which might be incompatible one direction or both. Simple relicensing is an option if there is a limited set of copyright holders. We have no automagic tools which would at least try to guess all mentioned licenses in the parts of code, check for their compatibility and compliance with the license of the shipped end-product... not to say (judging form SCO-vs-Linux history) that theoretically someone could build a tool to extract signatures (hell simple sha sums would be sufficient for the starting point) of code snippets and comparing them (and corresponding licenseS) to the known once in a central DB.

Trademarks: I know about few projects which got contacted by lawyers of big companies since apparently FOSS software was infringing a proprietary trademark (although the names for the projects were quite different)... sure thing poor scared developers preferred to simply pay a little fee under agreement of non-disclosure of the "deal" and changing the name of the project. But little portion of developers knows about existing trademarks in a particular field of applications... and generally speaking it is easy to check either the trademark is already registered at least in the states... e.g. would you know that 'junkyard' was trademarked by Apple some time ago? http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=johk...

So if I were FSF, I would just announce a competition for the creation of such a tool with a prize of 10k$ (somewhat like a fixed GSOC project ;-)). In the long term imho it would have greater impact and be more valuable to FOSS community.