17 Mar
2023
17 Mar
'23
5:19 p.m.
I once heard...
You don't need hearsay. FSF leadership seems to be proud, and vocal, of
things that make the rest of us cringe.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 7:48 PM Sellam Abraham via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I once heard a story from someone* who was told by a
journalist that while
said journalist was interviewing Richard Stallman he was [WARNING: GRAPHIC
CONTENT COMMENCES HERE] picking the jam from between his toes and eating
it.
Make of that what you will, but if that isn't just a slander, that's the
guy upon whose legacy everyone is relying.
Sellam
* remaining nameless
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 3:59 PM Ken Seefried via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
or
FSF hasn't done anything in at least a
decade, but someone from there "is
still around", so they're somehow relevant. People who actually are
doing
something (e.g litigating) are dismissed because
you "don't know these
people" (aside: there's someone who cares about open source who doesn't
know who the EFF is?). But someone not previously mentioned is doing
something, so...look! squirrel!?
No wonder GPL violators operate with impunity.
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 3:13 AM Alexander Huemer via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
action
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 09:25:31PM -0400, Ken
Seefried wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 12:32 PM Alexander Huemer via cctalk <
> cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:05:41PM +0800, Tom Hunter via cctalk
wrote:
> > > > FSF does not enforce anything.
> > >
> > > https://gpl-violations.org/
> > > They do though.
> > >
> > > -Alex
> > >
> >
> > Go to 'News' on that site and the last news about an enforcement
> was
> > from 2013.
>
> True.
> Though, Harald Welte, the person behind the project is still very
active
in the
free software community and surely happy to help.
> If you actually want to pursue GPL violations, especially if it's
related
> > to a non-FSF sponsored project, you'll have better luck with the EFF
>
appealing to someone like Popehat/Ken White to help find some *pro
bono *
representation.
That might be the case, I don't know these people.
There is also the SFC[1] who are currently attacking John Deere for
violating the GPL in their farm equipment[2], which is kind of a big
deal.
-Alex
[1] https://sfconservancy.org/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/926330/