* Marinus Savoritias <[email protected]> [2020-10-01 12:09]: > That sounds very priviledged to me. > > Today people are losing access to their software and they lose access to > banking, democracy, free speech among others. > > 20 years ago it may have been sharing. Today though Free Software is about > equality, democracy, economic independence among just a few. > > It is very much about justice.
Free software is not there to impose harsh justice on the GPL violators. When Stallman was speaking about justice at the time of begin of free software movement, he was speaking about injustice caused by proprietary programs in the world, he wanted to create new free software that will be just, contrary to what was already established as injustice. Please read here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html and here: https://www.fsf.org/licensing/enforcement-principles Quotes: Our primary goal in GPL enforcement is to bring about GPL compliance. Copyleft's overarching policy goal is to make respect of users' freedoms the norm. The Legal action is a last resort. Compliance actions are primarily education and assistance processes to aid those who are not following the license. Most GPL violations occur by mistake, without ill will. Copyleft enforcement should assist these distributors to become helpful participants in the free software projects on which they rely. Occasionally, violations are intentional or the result of severe negligence, and there is no duty to be empathetic in those cases. Even then, a lawsuit is a last resort; mutually agreed terms that fix (or at least cease) further distribution and address damage already done are much better than a battle in court. Jean _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
