FSF hasn't done anything in at least a decade, but someone from there "is still around", so they're somehow relevant. People who actually are doing something (e.g litigating) are dismissed because you "don't know these people" (aside: there's someone who cares about open source who doesn't know who the EFF is?). But someone not previously mentioned is doing something, so...look! squirrel!?
No wonder GPL violators operate with impunity. On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 3:13 AM Alexander Huemer via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 09:25:31PM -0400, Ken Seefried wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM Alexander Huemer via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk wrote: > > > > FSF does not enforce anything. > > > > > > https://gpl-violations.org/ > > > They do though. > > > > > > -Alex > > > > > > > Go to 'News' on that site and the last news about an enforcement action > was > > from 2013. > > True. > Though, Harald Welte, the person behind the project is still very active > in the free software community and surely happy to help. > > > If you actually want to pursue GPL violations, especially if it's related > > to a non-FSF sponsored project, you'll have better luck with the EFF or > > appealing to someone like Popehat/Ken White to help find some *pro bono * > > representation. > > That might be the case, I don't know these people. > There is also the SFC[1] who are currently attacking John Deere for > violating the GPL in their farm equipment[2], which is kind of a big > deal. > > -Alex > > [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/926330/ >
