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Bradley M. Kuhn - 3 years ago 2021-03-25 19:24:28
bkuhn@sfconservancy.org
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@@ -21,31 +21,25 @@ the Internet. Following the GPL's terms is easy — it gets more
 
complicated only when products distributed with GPL'd software also
 
include software distributed under terms that restrict users. Even in
 
these situations, many companies comply properly, but some companies
 
also try to bend or even break the GPL's rules to their perceived
 
advantage.</p>
 

	
 
<p>The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software Freedom Conservancy
 
  (Conservancy) today lead worldwide efforts to ensure compliance with
 
  the GPL family of licenses. The FSF began copyleft enforcement
 
  in the 1980s, and Conservancy has enforced the GPL for many of
 
  its member projects since its founding nearly a decade ago. Last
 
  year, the FSF and Conservancy jointly
 
  published <a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/"><cite>Copyleft and
 
  the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and
 
  Guide</cite></a>, which includes sections such as
 
<p>The Software Freedom Conservancy leads worldwide efforts to
 
  ensure compliance with the GPL family of licenses. Conservancy has enforced
 
  the GPL for many of its member projects since its founding in 2006.  Conservancy also helped
 
  published, and hosts, <a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/"><cite>Copyleft and the GNU
 
  General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide</cite></a>
 
  (often called the &ldquo;Copyleft Guide&rdquo;),
 
  which includes sections such as
 
  &ldquo;<a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidepa2.html#x17-116000II">A
 
  Practical Guide to GPL Compliance&rdquo;</a> and
 
  &ldquo;<a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidepa3.html#x26-152000III">Case
 
  Studies in GPL Enforcement</a>&rdquo;, which explain the typical
 
  process that both the FSF and Conservancy follow in their GPL
 
  enforcement actions. (Shorter descriptions of these processes appear
 
  in blog posts written
 
  by <a href="https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/compliance-situations">the
 
  FSF</a>
 
  and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">Conservancy</a>.)</p>
 
  Studies in GPL Enforcement</a>&rdquo;.  Those sections explain the typical process
 
  that Conservancy follows in our GPL enforcement
 
  actions. (A Shorter descriptions of these processes appeared in <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">earlier blog post</a>.)</p>
 

	
 
<p>As stalwarts of the community's freedom, we act as a proxy for users when
 
companies impede the rights to copy, share, modify, and/or
 
redistribute copylefted software. We require all redistributors to
 
follow the GPL's requirements in order to protect all the users' freedom,
 
and secondarily to support businesses that respect freedom
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@@ -60,22 +54,23 @@ further redistribution by others. Nevertheless, with their basis in copyright la
 
copyleft licenses are enforced through the same mechanisms &mdash; using
 
the same vocabulary and processes &mdash; as other copyright
 
licenses. We must take care, in copyleft enforcement,
 
to focus on the ultimate freedom-spreading purpose of copyleft,
 
and not fall into an overzealous or punitive approach, or into
 
legitimizing inherently unjust aspects of the copyright regime.
 
Therefore Conservancy and the FSF do enforcement according to community-oriented principles originally formulated by the FSF in 2001.
 
Therefore Conservancy  does enforcement according to community-oriented
 
  principles originally formulated by other community leaders in 2001.
 
</p>
 

	
 
<h4>Guiding Principles in Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</h4>
 

	
 
<ul>
 
<li><strong>Our primary goal in GPL enforcement is to bring about GPL
 
compliance.</strong>  Copyleft's overarching policy
 
goal is to make  respect of users' freedoms the norm.
 
The FSF designed the GNU GPL's text towards this end.
 
The GNU GPL's text is designed towards this end.
 
Copyleft enforcement done in this spirit focuses on stopping
 
incorrect distribution, encouraging corrected distribution, and
 
addressing damage done to the community and users by the past
 
violation. Addressing past damage often includes steps to notify those
 
who have already received the software how they can also obtain its
 
source code, and to explain the scope of their related rights. No
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enforced when necessary according to these principles, provides a
 
foundation for respectful, egalitarian, software-sharing
 
communities.
 
</p>
 

	
 
<div class="doc-footer">
 
  <p>This document is also published on <a href="https://fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles">FSF's site</a>.</p>
 
  <p>We revise these principles from time to time based on community feedback.  Please <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss">subscribe to our principles-discuss list</a> to follow the discussion and share your thoughts with us.</p>
 
Please <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss">subscribe to our principles-discuss list</a> to follow the discussion and share your thoughts with us.</p>
 
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<p>Copyright &copy; 2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., Bradley M. Kuhn, Allison Randal, Karen M. Sandler.
 
<p>Copyright &copy; 2021, Software Freedom Conservancy.<br/>
 
  Copyright &copy; 2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., Bradley M. Kuhn, Allison Randal, Karen M. Sandler.
 
<br/>Licensed under the <a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a>.
 
<br/>The copyright holders ask that per &sect;3(a)(1)(A)(i) and &sect;3(a)(1)(A)(v) of that license, you ensure these two links (<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">[1]</a>,
 
<a href="https://fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles">[2]</a>) are preserved in modified and/or redistributed versions.</p>
 
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