At 09:54 23/2/01 +0100, Ceki Gülcü wrote:
>Sure. A license to be worth the electrons it's written on must be
enforceable. Who is going to do the enforcing? In the GPL/APL case there
are two bodies involved, the FSF and the ASF. Say product X is dual
GPL/APLed but it breaches both the GPL terms and the APL terms. The FSF
folks will look at X and say, yes it breaches the GPL but it's OK since the
user is probably using the APL terms. The ASF people will look at X and
say, oh, it's breaching the APL but the user probably intends to use the GPL.
No - the enforcement of licenses (at least in free software world) is
always delegated to the body that owns the copyright. Even if the ASF
released something under the GPL the FSF would have nothing to do with it -
it would still be the ASF who must uphold it. The ASF would be responsible
for identifying and pursuing breaches of either license ;)
Cheers,
Pete
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