May 22, 2003
GPL Legal Battle?

These things rise up periodically, I suppose, but Dan Gillmor is reporting that the FSF vs OpenTV case may be heading into court. Of course, it's just this threat of enforcement that makes the GPL such a nice tool, when combined with the social elements of influence for companies to abide by it.

I watch for these, because in the past I took part in some corporate interpretation of how to fit in, what the lines of "must do" vs "keep the spirit" vs "commit to being part of the software ecology" were. Not that I was always able to convince people to choose what I felt was the capital R Right path but that at least the path chosen wasn't the wrong one.

Posted by esinclai at May 22, 2003 07:48 AM |