On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:43 AM, Mike Dewhirst <mi...@dewhirst.com.au> > wrote: > > Russ suggested staying within the big five and that was why I was leaning > > towards LGPL anyway. My thought was about who might be interested in > helping > > if the license is breached. MSF or FSF? I assume FSF because that is > their > > entire mission. > > > > I very much doubt either of them would be particularly interested > beyond publicising the alleged breach for you. As the license holder, > responsibility for enforcement would belong to you. > I think you'd be surprised. The MSF position isn't as clear, but the FSF and SFLC have both filed amicus curiae briefs in defence of the goals of the GPL, covering issues of patent law, copyright reform, and so on. The FSF exists to make sure Free software is possible at all, the (L)GPL is the instrument they've chosen to achieve that, and from what I've seen they're willing and able to defend that position. Don't get me wrong - I'm not expecting the FSF to ride in and cover all your legal costs for every potential violation - but if there was any risk that case law was about to be made that undermined the GPL, I think you'd find some big guns at your disposal. Yours, Russ Magee %-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAJxq849DvfCfXKnXAtV5Ej14BnMqXYT9q%3DmEpvYgYuTHRa1i_Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
