Conservancy Seeks Linux Community's Questions on GPL Enforcement

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

URL:     https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jun/01/conservancy-seeks-linux-enforcement-questions/
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          Conservancy Seeks Your Questions on GPL Enforcement
                Conservancy Plans Long-Term Campaign to
                Educate Developers About GPL Enforcement

Today, Software Freedom Conservancy — a charity that provides a home to
more than thirty Open Source and Free Software projects, and provides
license enforcement efforts at the request of some of its projects,
including the only unified and community-led GPL enforcement efforts for
the Linux kernel — begins a long-term campaign to increase education and
understanding about community-driven GPL enforcement processes.

Historically, Conservancy has published extensive materials about
enforcement of the GPL, including blog posts, announcements regarding
compliance actions, many sections appearing in the definitive Copyleft
Guide (a joint initiative with the Free Software Foundation). After
Conservancy's recent announcement of its funding of Christoph Hellwig's
lawsuit against VMware, Conservancy has sought to answer as many
questions as possible about GPL enforcement.

Conservancy invites developers and other Open Source and Free Software
contributors to email their questions on GPL enforcement to
<enforcement-questions at sfconservancy.org>. Conservancy cannot promise to
answer every question; Conservancy will use the collected questions over
the coming months to provide more educational and informational
materials about GPL enforcement, and in particular about Conservancy's
GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers.

Conservancy especially seeks questions from contributors to the Linux
kernel, and therefore encourages questioners who have contributed to
Linux to write from their email address as it appears in Linux's Git
logs, so that Conservancy can prioritize their questions.

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Other URLs of interest:

  https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html
  https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/about.html
  https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/may/29/compliance/
  https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/
  https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2014/jul/15/why-kallithea/
  https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/
  https://sfconservancy.org/news/2013/aug/16/exfat-samsung/
  https://copyleft.org/
  http://compliance.guide/
  http://compliance.guide/pristine-example