Carlo Piana :: Law is Freedom ::

Ever wondered how GPL violations and the other guys in pursue of violations of the Free Software licenses find out who is an infringer?

A very detailed document made by Armijn Hemel of Loohuis Consulting, "The GPL compliance engineering guide", provides an insight and a lot of information. But this is serious stuff, kids, don't try at home unless you are very well trained, of age, and anyway do it at your own risk!

From the SFLC:

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to protect and advance Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS), today published a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses.

The guide provides a basic legal overview of GPL compliance and recommends procedures that companies can implement to avoid violations. It also discusses effective response to enforcement actions by copyright holders.

About time!

Almost four years after a Decision of the European Commission found Microsoft in blatant breach of antitrust laws, more than nine years after the initial complaint was filed by Sun Microsystems, we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel. Today Microsoft and the Samba Team struck a deal to create the WSPP agreement.

Eben Moglen's Software Freedom Law Centre will host the first Annual Legal Summit for Software Freedom this fall. The Summit will have two parts: a closed session in the morning for a private meeting of the "world's foremost FOSS attorneys", and an open session in the afternoon consisting of free legal presentations to the public.