Re:Does free software benefit from ML models being derived w...
by pabs3 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:43PM
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Agreed that they are limited, hopefully the grant they got for enforcement actions will improve that. They don't avoid litigation where necessary, for example their action against Linksys over the WRT54G router resulted in the creation of the OpenWRT project. They are planning more litigation in the IoT space using the grant money.
Personally I think the principles they operate under (including extending GPLv3 termination to GPLv2) are fairly reasonable, I don't think unintentional/short-term violations should be punished harshly. I definitely agree that companies that refuse to come into compliance need more incentives to change their behaviour.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-st... https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liber...
Personally I think the principles they operate under (including extending GPLv3 termination to GPLv2) are fairly reasonable, I don't think unintentional/short-term violations should be punished harshly. I definitely agree that companies that refuse to come into compliance need more incentives to change their behaviour.
https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...