“Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Compliance” Now in Chinese!

[Karen Sandler]

URL:
http://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/nov/23/compliance-principles-chinese-translation/
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“Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Compliance” Now in Chinese

Software Freedom Conservancy is pleased to announce that the Kaiyuanshe 
Legal Committee has translated the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL 
Compliance in Chinese. Kaiyuanshe, roughly translated as open source 
alliance, is a group of enterprises, communities, and individuals in 
China supporting and promoting free and open source software. The 
document is available for download on Kaiyuanshe's web site and on 
Conservancy's site in HTML and as a PDF.

The Principles were published by Conservancy and the Free Software 
Foundation last year, and set forth norms around community-oriented 
enforcement, removing uncertainty for companies who face compliance 
actions and providing criteria for evaluating whether license compliance 
is in the community's interest. The translation was primarily worked on 
by Richard Lin and Maggie Wang, members of the Kaiyuanshe Legal 
Committee.

"More and more Chinese companies are embracing Free and Open Source 
Software, but not enough participants truly understand our communities' 
expectations around compliance," said Lin, Community Director for Huawei 
Developer Zone. "We in Kaiyuanshe want to help more people to truly 
understand Free and Open Source Software, and call for more people, 
organizations and companies to contribute together."

"The principles are good education and very clear to put into practice," 
added Wang, Representative in China for Ladas & Parry LLP. "I believe 
the publication of the Principles will ease the tension for a lot of 
companies who are willing to adopt GPL'd software."

Karen Sandler, Executive Director of Conservancy commented, "This is 
part of the impressive work undertaken by the Kaiyuanshe Legal 
Committee. The coordination by Kaiyuanshe shows the strength of all of 
the organizations and companies that have come together in China."