A tempest in a toybox [LWN.net]

A tempest in a toybox

Posted Feb 1, 2012 18:48 UTC (Wed) by jra (subscriber, #55261)
Parent article: A tempest in a toybox

Conservancy position on GPL enforcement:

http://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/

From the horse's mouth, as it were :-).

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A tempest in a toybox

Posted Feb 1, 2012 19:15 UTC (Wed) by jra (subscriber, #55261) [Link] (2 responses)

Full disclosure - I'm a member of the Board of Directors of the SFC.

Jeremy.

A tempest in a toybox

Posted Feb 2, 2012 3:24 UTC (Thu) by rahvin (guest, #16953) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks for posting that. I like in particular that the biggest complaint in this discussion seems to be that SFC is auditing all FOSS software but in reality those complaining are missing the point that by doing so you are protecting them against suit by others.

A tempest in a toybox

Posted Feb 9, 2012 20:52 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

So you're paying them for "protection".

Got it.