I want to thank everyone who has spent years putting together this Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement. Conservancy issued a public thank-you today: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2017/oct/16/linux-kernel-enforcement-statement/
Greg wrote: > What? I thought I did in my blog post! Ugh, you are right, it's not > there, my fault, it was in an earlier draft, I swear, sorry about that, No problem! Here's the stable URL for that link when you add it: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html When Conservancy released those Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, we asked for the copyleft-using community (in general) and the Linux community (in particular) to join us in discussing it and looking for ways to adopt those Principles in everyday work. I'm thus really glad to see this great outcome! The additional permission in Greg's proposed patch is an excellent way to begin incorporation of those Principles into Linux's license officially, via an opt-in exception for copyright holders. Conservancy plans this week to officially sign it for the Linux copyrights that have been assigned to us. I also would like to invite everyone to the mailing list created specifically for this subject, at https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss . Folks should feel free to Cc that list with this thread, and/or (if the discussion becomes OT for LKML) start a new thread there. Greg, finally, I noticed you had some links to resources about compliance in your blog post. Your readers may also be interested in FSF and Conservancy's Copyleft Guide, which is at https://copyleft.org/guide/. A direct link to the chapters on GPL compliance are: https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidepa2.html#x17-116000II https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidepa3.html#x26-152000III I think the latter (the case studies) are particularly useful and my talk on the most recent case study was well-received at Embedded Linux Conference 2015. -- Bradley M. Kuhn Distinguished Technologist of Software Freedom Conservancy ======================================================================== Become a Conservancy Supporter today: https://sfconservancy.org/supporter
