Richard Fontana fontana@identi.ca
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Open Source Initiative Publishes Statement of Support for Conservancy's Enforcement PrinciplesRUL
Software Freedom Conservancy at 2015-10-13T18:59:42Z
URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/13/osi-supports-enforcement-principles/
Today the Open Source Initiative (OSI) made a statement in support of the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, which were recently co-published by the Free Software Foundation and Conservancy.
Publishing these guiding principles clearly explicates community-oriented enforcement, removes uncertainty for companies who face compliance actions, and also provides criteria for evaluating whether license compliance is in the community's interest. The principles enumerated in the document include prioritizing software freedom over all other ancillary goals, using legal action only as a last resort, and offering flexibility on rights restoration under GPLv2's termination clause (GPLv2§4). Allison Randal, president of OSI co-authored these Principles collaboratively with the FSF's and Conservancy's leadership.
OSI's statement, entitled “The importance of community-oriented GPL enforcement” discusses the important role of Conservancy's and FSF's principles document in community best practices. OSI comments: While the OSI's work doesn't include legal enforcement actions for the GPL or any of the family of licenses that conform to the Open Source Definition, we applaud these principle as set forth by the FSF and Conservancy, clearly defining community best practices around GPL enforcement.
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Richard Fontana at 2015-07-17T10:40:35Z
We could easily clarify that no 'reverse passing off' claim is made on any binaries built from copyleft-next code,Richard Fontana likes this.
Stephen Michael Kellat at 2015-07-16T00:16:06Z
Well, this will still get interesting. I had the opportunity to read through the toybox rationale against copyleft and am not satisfied with that write-up either. As I see through work at my employer, someone determined to get something will try very hard to make it happen regardless of the preparations in place. Compliance violators don't like to come into compliance either.
In the end...how can we appropriately address this in copyleft-next?
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We could easily clarify that no 'reverse passing off' claim is made on any binaries built from copyleft-next code,Richard Fontana at 2015-07-17T10:40:35Z
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Bradley M. Kuhn at 2015-07-06T22:01:04Z
Fontana, I think (since you don't disclose your year of birth), that you are a few years older than me. It may turn out that Journey's popularity missed you by a few years.
They charted in the early 1980s.
Those who grew up in the USA with formative years in the 1980s probably realize that radio airplay in the USA during that time, mixed with the burgeoning MTV, made "missing" the big current band virtually impossible.
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Bradley M. Kuhn at 2015-07-06T22:01:35Z
retroactively is really disturbing.
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Stephen Michael Kellat at 2015-06-30T23:52:35Z
Do we count birthdays for copyleft-next or does it officially have a Date of Death?
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copyleft-next has a target maturity date which is July 4, 2032. The 1.0.0 release is expected to be out no later than that date, and probably much earlier.Richard Fontana at 2015-07-02T15:12:19Z
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But in any case, for US people the birthday of copyleft-next is easy to remember.Richard Fontana at 2015-07-02T15:15:09Z
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Actually the contemplated Date of Death for copyleft-next would be the anticipated adoption of copyleft-next 1.0.0 as the GNU GPLv4.Richard Fontana at 2015-07-02T15:32:02Z
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Bradley M. Kuhn at 2015-06-30T21:10:23Z
It's also the 24th anniversary of GPLv2 this month, BTW.
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-04-01T23:46:50Z
I think this post is a hoax, @Richard Fontana probably broke into @Bradley M. Kuhn's account as a parody.
Funny joke, Fontana! But you're not fooling anyone.
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Christopher Allan Webber at 2015-04-02T01:46:57Z
Accidentally clicked a like button on a post I was neutral on and then clicked unlike, then worried that clicking unlike sent an even more unclear message than if I left it as like!
People get really upset about that sometimes!
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I wish we had stats on how many people unliked things.
Mrs Manners says to click it 12 times in this situation.
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@cwebber@identi.ca This is why I have always found the 'like' terminology troubling.. often I simply am marking it for later viewing. I may even do this with things I disagree with and want to take the time to give a considered and reasoned response to later when I have more time. Pump.io's 'favourite' terminology is better but still not a great fit for me. I'd prefer 'keep' or 'bookmark'.Freemor at 2015-04-02T10:59:17Z
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