Re(2): How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing
Posted by: Nathan Willis
on July 14, 2008 08:37 PM
.... if they felt it worthwhile.
Exactly; slim chance you will convince the attorneys that volunteer their time at SFLC to pursue a case that does not meet the organization's chartered purpose, when they do have legit GPL/open source cases. They're no more likely to do to take an unrelated case on a pro bono basis than is any other randomly selected law firm. In fact, SFLC set up a for-profit firm (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/26/moglen-ravicher/) to handle other types of cases.
The rub is that you should take care of your licensing now, even though you can't image that you will ever have to take somebody to court to enforce it. The PwnageTool project didn't get their licensing act together, and now an unexpected legal problem has caught them unprepared. If you don't want that to happen to you, make your licensing clear today.
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Re(2): How to risk your project and your livelihood with sloppy licensing
Posted by: Nathan Willis on July 14, 2008 08:37 PMExactly; slim chance you will convince the attorneys that volunteer their time at SFLC to pursue a case that does not meet the organization's chartered purpose, when they do have legit GPL/open source cases. They're no more likely to do to take an unrelated case on a pro bono basis than is any other randomly selected law firm. In fact, SFLC set up a for-profit firm (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/26/moglen-ravicher/) to handle other types of cases.
The rub is that you should take care of your licensing now, even though you can't image that you will ever have to take somebody to court to enforce it. The PwnageTool project didn't get their licensing act together, and now an unexpected legal problem has caught them unprepared. If you don't want that to happen to you, make your licensing clear today.
Nate
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