Open Source Initiative Publishes Statement of Support for Conservancy's Enforcement Principles

Bradley M. Kuhn info at sfconservancy.org
Tue Oct 13 19:01:59 UTC 2015


URL:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/13/osi-supports-enforcement-principles/

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             Open Source Initiative Publishes Statement of
            Support for Conservancy's Enforcement Principles

Today the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made a statment in support of the
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, which were recently
co-published by the Free Software Foundation and Conservancy.

Publishing these guiding principles clearly explicates
community-oriented enforcement, removes uncertainty for companies who
face compliance actions, and also provides criteria for evaluating
whether license compliance is in the community's interest. The
principles enumerated in the document include prioritizing software
freedom over all other ancillary goals, using legal action only as a
last resort, and offering flexibility on rights restoration under
GPLv2's termination clause (GPLv2§4). Allison Randal, president of OSI
co-authored these Principles collaboratively with the FSF's and
Conservancy's leadership.

OSI's statement, entitled “The importance of community-oriented GPL
enforcement” discusses the important role of Conservancy's and FSF's
principles document in community best practices. OSI comments: "While
the OSI's work doesn't include legal enforcement actions for the GPL or
any of the family of licenses that conform to the Open Source
Definition, we applaud these principle as set forth by the FSF and
Conservancy, clearly defining community best practices around GPL
enforcement."


Other URLs of interest related to this announcement:
   http://opensource.org/node/763
   https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html
   https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/01/compliance-principles/
   https://twitter.com/conservancy/status/654007925636116480
   https://identi.ca/conservancy/note/yK9-5qTLRzOqM3aOvwIO4g


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