FOSS license compliance in the consumer electronics market
FOSS license compliance in the consumer electronics market
Posted Sep 28, 2009 9:17 UTC (Mon) by slef (guest, #14720)Parent article: FOSS license compliance in the consumer electronics market
One of the biggest problems is the relatively weak engagement between developers and lawyers with a few notable and very welcome exceptions. In some (generally older) writings, the problems of a programmer-priesthood are discussed. Once that was being overcome, there were problems with a lawyer-priesthood, saying "you should do X to protect your software" but not publishing the reasoning behind that advice. Is the situation really improving? Which of the organisations like FSF's Free Software Licensing and Compliance Lab, gpl-violations.org, FSFE's Freedom Task Force and Software Freedom Law Center are working in the open like debian-legal does?