Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2012/02/01/gpl-enforcement.html

I’ve had the interesting pleasure the last 36 hours
to watch people debate
something that’s been a major part of my life’s work for the last
thirteen years. I’m admittedly proud of myself for entirely resisting
the urge to dive into the comment threads, and I don’t think it would be
all that useful to do so. Mostly, I believe my work stands on its own,
and people can make their judgments and disagree if they like (as a few
have) or speak out about how they support it (as even more did — at
least by my confirmation-biased count, anyway :).

I was concerned, however, that some of the classic misconceptions about
GPL enforcement were coming up yet again. I generally feel that
I
give
so
many
talks
(including releasing one
as an oggcast) that everyone must by now know the detailed
reasons why GPL enforcement is done the way it is, and how a plan for
non-profit GPL enforcement is executed.

But, the recent discussion threads show otherwise. So, over on
Conservancy’s blog,
I’ve written
a basic, first-principles summary of my GPL enforcement philosophy
and I’ve
also posted
a few
comments on
the BusyBox
mailing list thread, too.

I may have more to say about this later, but that’s it for now, I
think.