Re: Please explain the FSF copyright assignment thing

[tomas]

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On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:20:31AM +0200, Andreas Röhler wrote:

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> 2) the probability of involuntary license violations

To mitigate that, the FSF (and not only them) have a policy of
"patience": there are long, friendly negociations with violators
(often years!) before actually going to court. The aim is to
bring the violator into compliance, not to extort money from
them.

There are folks out there misusing the GPL (Patrick McHardy comes
to mind). As any sharp tool, the GPL (in conjunction with courts,
which are much biased towards "war") can be misused.

The solution to that is community action.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/694890/

Cheers
- -- tomás
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