Notices tagged with gpl

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn , mcepl

@bkuhn It is *possible* assumption that BSD advertising clause is #GPL incompatible was mistaken. Blog post RSN. Still owe @mcepl 1 email.

Richard Fontana Free Software , Free Software Foundation , lxoliva

@lxoliva issue is, can you trust a company to release new software under #GPL given widespread abuse of GPL by proprietary relicensors

Jason Riedy

Tired of one-sided shit. #GPL #FTW.

Bradley M. Kuhn Tom Legg

@tomlegg,it's quite clear from the internal politics that #IBM only contributed upstream to #Linux & #GCC b/c it desired to comply with #GPL

Richard Fontana Bradley M. Kuhn , mcepl

@mcepl @bkuhn I'm confused, is this about #GPL enforcement? :-)

Evan Prodromou

People have fixed bugs in vendor kernels by disassembling binary code, fixing, and reassembling. #gpl #youmustcomply #lp2012

Bradley M. Kuhn Bradley M. Kuhn

@stickster, in writing up notes on a #GPL violation, I just wrote "wrapper license needs fixed", so apparently I use it more than I thought!

Richard Fontana kenfallon

@kenfallon Last I looked at the matter I concluded MS-PL was #GPL incompatible because it's sort of a weak copyleft

Bradley M. Kuhn aseigo

@aseigo, again, please tell me the specific action against a specific #GPL violator that I or #Conservancy or #FSF took that you oppose.

Bradley M. Kuhn aseigo

@aseigo, can you point to a specific #GPL enforcement action you take issue with? Seems you've heard FUD about Conservancy's work, perhaps?

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn , mlinksva

@mlinksva @bkuhn since in practice those who care about #GPL compliance are in the 99%, GPL as bare © license could be major design flaw

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn

@bkuhn I'm not completely convinced that an non-legally-enforced #GPL is entirely equivalent to #BSD. Doesn't explain reality.

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn , Richard Fontana

@bkuhn Consider effect on #GPL compliance if downstream users had C&CS remedy beyond complaining to upstream.

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn

@bkuhn tho as we've discussed there's serious issue whether #GPL should give downstream users legal remedy (some believe already does)

Richard Fontana GNU Affero General Public Licence , mlinksva

@mlinksva re network services, I mentioned rise as factor in possible #GPL decline, coupled with !AGPL pwned by dual-license hucksters

Bradley M. Kuhn GNU Affero General Public Licence , Southern California Linux Expo , Bradley M. Kuhn , John Mark

I note @johnmark did a good job framing !AGPL question at !SCALE cloud panel, but broad confusion here's akin to #GPL confusion 15 years ago

Richard Fontana Free Software Foundation , tmarble

@tmarble More concerned about general decline of popularity of #GPL than of openness for business. !FSF should respond to cultural shift.

Richard Fontana The GNU General Public License , Bradley M. Kuhn

@bkuhn or do you agree with me that #MySQL and the like caused hopefully-reparable harm to #GPL reputation?