Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC

Posted Oct 6, 2020 18:55 UTC (Tue) by atai (subscriber, #10977)
In reply to: Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC by landley
Parent article: Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC

People have the right to be awarded for their work. They are entitled to either have their software used following copyleft conditions, or they get paid license fees.

Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC

Posted Oct 7, 2020 1:25 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278) [Link]

Conservancy aren't going to be collecting license fees in lieu of GPL compliance.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles....

I assume they will get some money of some kind though, either fees for the time spent helping companies come into compliance, or possibly some court-granted damages of some kind, although the principles above do say "pursuing damages to the full extent allowed by copyright law is usually unnecessary, and can in some cases work against the purpose of copyleft".