[ILUG-BOM] Opensource for a Small Manufacturing unit

[പ്രവീണ്‍‌|Praveen]

2007/1/17, Vihan Pandey <vihanpandey at gmail.com>:
>
> Very true, but i guess FSF is probably(correct me if i'm wrong) the only
> organisation which keeps a track of GPL violations and does something
> about
> it.


No, Harald Welte and  http://gpl-violations.org/ also keeps track of
gplviolations

Anyone is free to adopt any free software license they want, there's
> really no ``signing up" required with anyone.


I was talking about the case when anyone writes "their_own_license"

Only if one has chosen one of
> the FSF licenses and are violating it or violating GPL in general then FSF
> can take action against the entity concerned.
>
> Not correct. FSF can act only agaist violations of the softwares which it
owns full copyright (that's why most of the official GNU software projects
mandates copyright assignment to FSF - only then FSF can enforce GPL
compliance).

Cheers
Praveen
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