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Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

Posted Feb 1, 2012 20:50 UTC (Wed) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by tbird20d
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement

> I think this really comes down to the fact that you trust the SFC to behave reasonably, and I don't.

Yes, I think that is part of our disagreement, also I have the (maybe unfounded) belief that they really don't have the ability to enforce unreasonable actions. If they tried to veto software in bad faith for example then I would ignore their request and punt it to the courts to sort out. It seems likely that the SFC would lose badly if they tried anything in bad faith such as ignoring evidence of license compliance. I don't really have any reason to believe they would try something in bad faith though as it would be all cost and no upside for them.

I guess I don't think there is a need to "trust" the SFC to not turn into a copyright troll and the courts have been showing very little patience with copyright trolls recently.


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