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The past of FS license enforcement

For those not around to witness it:

gpl-violations.org early history

gpl-violations.org later history

Fast-Forward 8 years. Results:

gpl-violations.org dormancy

Result: No gpl-violations.org activity in years. Project became dormant.

gpl-violations.org dormancy

Still, it is a pity that it was too much tied to me personally, and there was no structure and no team that could continue the work.

Let’s learn from that…

Resurrection, Step 1 (Q4/2015)

Resurrection, Step 2 (2016)

gpl-violations.org e.V.

How is this different to SFC?

Apart from that, in terms of goals and actual enforcement work, not all that different. At last not that it is planned.

Isn’t more enforcement harmful?

Actual enforcement process

Outlook

Let’s meet again next year at LLW and talk about the progress by then.

Thanks

You now have a license to ask questions (SCNR).