Software Freedom Conservancy: New Strategy for GPL Enforcement
Well this is what was apparent for me on day one, and I genuinely did not understand people calling for "DON'T SUE THEM, YOU WILL SCARE THEM AWAY FROM LINUX!"<p>I see no goodwill from those types, and the simplest explanation for their stance is them being material beneficiaries from that.<p>People like Patrick McHardy do an enormous service to the Linux community, and he alone provably did more in the last few years than what that GPL conservancy did for its entire existence. Nothing will be more educational than a "GPL death sentence" to some multi-billion dollar multinational like Broadcom. <i>If it will not be McHardys doing the hard work of suing such companies, who will? I don't see those conservancy guys, Linus' associates, or meek Linux Foundation raising a hand on kinds of Qualcomm, or Samsung (from whom, coincidentally, lots of Linux Foundation funding comes)</i><p>I completely don't understand people who direct flak on them, and the brouhaha with the "pledge." The only rationale I can fathom, is again is that material beneficiaries of GPL violation have now penetrated the circles who made the "GPL Cooperation Commitment"