This is a bit different than liberating software for personal or small commercial use. This is roughly equivalent to someone printing out britannica articles and selling them for 20-150 quid
________________________________ From: "jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com" <jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Tue, October 13, 2009 11:07:34 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] (no subject) On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Gregory Kohs <thekoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > It strikes me that this is something that Creative Commons or other > organizations with Godwin-like attorneys should be aggressively > pursuing, but we didn't hear from any of them in the original thread, > did we? Mike, could you illuminate this conversation with your > professional opinion? > > Greg The free software foundation is very nice about GPL violations: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-13.html So what happens when the GPL is violated? With software for which the Free Software Foundation holds the copyright (either because we wrote the programs in the first place, or because free software authors have assigned us the copyright, in order to take advantage of our expertise in protecting their software's freedom), the first step is a report, usually received by email to license-violat...@gnu.org. We ask the reporters of violations to help us establish necessary facts, and then we conduct whatever further investigation is required. We reach this stage dozens of times a year. A quiet initial contact is usually sufficient to resolve the problem. Parties thought they were complying with GPL, and are pleased to follow advice on the correction of an error. Sometimes, however, we believe that confidence-building measures will be required, because the scale of the violation or its persistence in time makes mere voluntary compliance insufficient. In such situations we work with organizations to establish GPL-compliance programs within their enterprises, led by senior managers who report to us, and directly to their enterprises' managing boards, regularly. In particularly complex cases, we have sometimes insisted upon measures that would make subsequent judicial enforcement simple and rapid in the event of future violation. In approximately a decade of enforcing the GPL, I have never insisted on payment of damages to the Foundation for violation of the license, and I have rarely required public admission of wrongdoing. Our position has always been that compliance with the license, and security for future good behavior, are the most important goals. We have done everything to make it easy for violators to comply, and we have offered oblivion with respect to past faults. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
