[TriLUG] [Trilug-announce] Meeting Reminder: July 12 2007

[Kevin J.]

I don't think it's a practice of the FSF to sue anyone actually. 

According to Eben Moglen (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html):

"
So what happens when the GPL is violated?  With software for which the
Free Software Foundation holds the copyright (either because we wrote
the programs in the first place, or because free software authors have
assigned us the copyright, in order to take advantage of our expertise
in protecting their software's
freedom), the first step is a
report, usually received by email
to <license-violation at gnu.org>. We ask the reporters of
violations to help us establish necessary facts, and then we
conduct whatever further investigation is required.





We reach this stage dozens of times a year.  A quiet initial contact is
usually sufficient to resolve the problem.  Parties thought they were
complying with GPL, and are pleased to follow advice on the correction of
an error.  Sometimes, however, we believe that confidence-building
measures will be required, because the scale of the violation or its
persistence in time makes mere voluntary compliance insufficient.  In such
situations we work with organizations to establish GPL-compliance programs
within their enterprises, led by senior managers who report to us, and
directly to their enterprises' managing boards, regularly.  In
particularly complex cases, we have sometimes insisted upon measures that
would make subsequent judicial enforcement simple and rapid in the event
of future violation.






In approximately a decade of enforcing the GPL, I have never insisted on
payment of damages to the Foundation for violation of the license, and I
have rarely required public admission of wrongdoing.  Our position has
always been that compliance with the license, and security for future good
behavior, are the most important goals.  We have done everything to make
it easy for violators to comply, and we have offered oblivion with respect
to past faults."



----- Original Message ----
From: Andrew C. Oliver <acoliver at buni.org>
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:51:32 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [Trilug-announce] Meeting Reminder: July 12 2007

Cisco iPhone: 
http://www.betanews.com/article/Cisco_Says_It_Will_Resolve_iPhone_GPL_Violation/1169579409

Apple iPhone:
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9737829-7.html

Nothing on Apple being sued or threatened specifically.

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On 7/10/07, Kevin J. <mrkevinj at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> As luck would have it, she's scheduled to speak to our LUG tonight so I'll
>> ask her then. We're planning to video record our meeting as well so it will
>> be interesting to have another video discussion available now that GPLv3 has
>> been made official.
>>
>> Of course, if the lack of internet buzz on the actual release date is any
>> indication, she may not have too much to add to her discussion with TriLUG
>> in June. I suppose it's difficult to get any press, however, when you time
>> your product release on the same day as that of the Apple iPhone.
>>
> 
> Unless of course you use said license as a means to sue your "competitor for
> scarce news headline space":
> 
> http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/stallman-all-your-iphone-are-belong-to.html
> 
> Might be a rumor, might not.  I can't seem to find any other information on
> it.  Can anyone else?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 
> 


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