Re: FSF continuously harms Free Hardware

[Jacob Hrbek]

> Is the FSF a copyright holder of Ender-3? If not, they cannot enforce
the license. -- Giudice

FSF is the copyright holder
https://github.com/Creality3DPrinting/Ender-3/blob/master/LICENSE#L4

On 1/18/22 19:31, Valentino Giudice wrote:
> INAL, but:
> > I though you would say that so i filled `gnu.org #1798270`
> > (https://github.com/Homers3D/Tevo-Tornado/issues/5),
> Copyright can only be enforced by the copyright holders of a work
> (who, in principle, can allow any party to violate any term of the
> license if they wish to do so).
>
> Are you a copyright holder of Ender-3? If so, and if you are not a
> lawyer yourself, get a lawyer involved, if you haven't yet. Don't
> threaten to get a lawyer, don't wait before you do.
>
> Is the FSF a copyright holder of Ender-3? If not, they cannot enforce
> the license.
>
> The correct thing to do for anyone other than the copyright holder,
> when they see a violation, is, for those who are not the copyright
> holders, t
o report it to the copyright holders, since they can enforce
> it and they know if they gave any license exception to any party
> (note: GIMP disagrees with me on this, but they also disagree with
> making a public statement: https://www.gimp.org/about/selling.html).
>
> The correct approach for the copyright holder is to get a lawyer
> immediately, before anything else (before writing to the violator and
> before making public statements, for sure) and then do whatever the
> lawyer says.

--
Jacob Hrbek

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