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+Strategies in practical GPL enforcement
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+Enforcement of copyleft licenses like the GNU GPL has always been a
+somewhat controversial topic.  Some people are not in favor of
+enforcement at all (but then, why choose the GPL and not a permissive
+license?).  Other people have less inhibitions in enforcing the
+license.  But then this raises the next questions?  Enforcement using
+which strategy?  Enforcement using which methods?  The Linux Kernel
+developer community has recently re-fueled that debate on the
+ksummit-discuss mailing list.
+
+Ultimately, most projects and developers are looking for the
+downstream developers and companies to participate in a collaborative
+development model.  The copyleft principle is just a legal "hack" to
+codify some part of that based on copyright.  As a result, license
+compliance is not an end in itself, but the very bare legal minimum of
+what needs to be done when engaging in (particularly
+corporate/commercial) re-use of Free Software.
+
+This talk will look at the different (GPL) license enforcement
+approaches and present their advantages and disadvantages.