May be to add two things: - I did not investigate this in detail, so you should doublecheck my claims - I guess they are clever and their open-source claims might of course officially just relate to the past - I think they play very well with gray areas and ambiguities
Nevertheless I feel they try to "hijack" the peoples positive attitude and emotions towards "open source". Regards Am 12. Juni 2024 08:54:49 MESZ schrieb "Bernhard E. Reiter" <bernh...@fsfe.org>: >Hi Ursin, > >thanks for the https://auterion.com/ > "We’ve been leaders in an open source movement for more than a decade." >example. > >Am Samstag 01 Juni 2024 09:06:28 schrieb Dr. Trigon: >> >* What would you suggest to face openwashing? >> >> Make it public. > >A first would be to document the false claims or the bad behaviour. > >> May be consitute an nonprofit organization containing lawers and try to >> enforce the open-source licences/"contracts". > >You may already know it: >Enforcing licenses (or copyright/European replication rights) legally >usually can only be done by someone who holds rights on a significant >part of the software. > >Most of the time it makes sense to bring organisations into compliance >as intermediate step. > >The FSFE (and also our independent sister FSF based in the USA) have enforced >licenses in the past or helped to do this. (This is one of the reasons the FSF >has demanded copyright assignments for contributions to some GNU software.) >Other Free Software organisations have done so as well. > >Best, >Bernhard > >-- >FSFE -- Founding Member Support our work for Free Software: >blogs.fsfe.org/bernhard https://fsfe.org/donate | contribute
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