Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-27 Thread Fungi4All
> From: joel.r...@gmail.com > To: debian-user > On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> On Thu 20/Jul/2017 22:18:25 +0200 Fungi4All wrote: >>>[...] >> >>> For linux we all need to agree before we decide. >> >> Yeah, that"s a pita. It"s hard to change anything if everyone can

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 3:29 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Thu 20/Jul/2017 22:18:25 +0200 Fungi4All wrote: >>[...] > >> For linux we all need to agree before we decide. > > Yeah, that's a pita. It's hard to change anything if everyone can veto. That's sure indication that everything is getti

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-21 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Thu 20/Jul/2017 22:18:25 +0200 Fungi4All wrote: >> > On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> >> Of course, nobody dislikes security. Making it neat and clear is another >> question, and that"s why experiments are needed. Can we consider Linux and >> GRSecurity as entities cooperating with

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-20 Thread Fungi4All
> On Wed 19/Jul/2017 23:14:35 +0200 Martin Read wrote: >> On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >>> One my wonder why GRSecurity is not (optionally) included in Linux. >> >> For a variety of reasons relating to the personalities and opinions of the >> people who would be involved - on both si

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-20 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 19/Jul/2017 23:14:35 +0200 Martin Read wrote: > On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> One my wonder why GRSecurity is not (optionally) included in Linux. > > For a variety of reasons relating to the personalities and opinions of the > people who would be involved - on both sides -

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-19 Thread Martin Read
On 19/07/17 12:17, Alessandro Vesely wrote: One my wonder why GRSecurity is not (optionally) included in Linux. For a variety of reasons relating to the personalities and opinions of the people who would be involved - on both sides - in making it happen. It should be noted that some people w

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-19 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Sun 16/Jul/2017 17:17:21 +0200 Martin Read wrote: > On 16/07/17 12:47, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> May I ask, in passing, why Debian (for packages like apt, say) as well as >> Linux >> did not switch to GPLv3? Would such switch ease enforcement? > > Switching a project over from GPLv2-only to

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-17 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Joel Rees wrote at 17:50 (PDT) on Sunday: > The whole idea that they have to protect themselves from users of their > so-called intellectual property is where we, as a society are failing to > do the reality check. This text above is very well said! The value that Debian has is that it works very

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Joel Rees
On Sun, Jul 16, 2017 at 8:47 PM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > There are salient discrepancies in copylefting collective work —as there are > mismatches in working as a free software developer in a western economic > model. > There are salient discrepancies in every licensing model, so-called free/

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
> On Sat 15/Jul/2017 19:24:56 +0200 Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > > [...] > > Finally, this is probably a good moment -- since this thread has erupted on > > a Debian Mailing List -- to let everyone know that Conservancy also > > organizes a GPL copyright aggregation project for Debian contributors as >

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Martin Read
On 16/07/17 12:47, Alessandro Vesely wrote: May I ask, in passing, why Debian (for packages like apt, say) as well as Linux did not switch to GPLv3? Would such switch ease enforcement? Switching a project over from GPLv2-only to GPLv3-only or GPLv3-or-later requires either (a) the consent of

Re: funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-16 Thread Alessandro Vesely
There are salient discrepancies in copylefting collective work —as there are mismatches in working as a free software developer in a western economic model. Let me just say that this discussion, working out the legal details of the problem, is very interesting. I guess that's how every inch of fr

funding & viability questions of GPL enforcement.

2017-07-15 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Bruce, your analysis ignores the political forces that have allied to thwart GPL enforcement efforts. If Conservancy did not face these anti-enforcement politics regularly, Conservancy could and would spend more time working on bringing more companies into compliance. I hope you'll review my FOSD