Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues

[Karen Sandler <karen@sfconservancy.org>]

On Fri, 2016-08-26 at 12:37 -0400, James Bottomley wrote:

>  The idea that your opinion only counts if you've already agreed to
> support SFC actions.  Effectively it disenfranchises the majority in
> the kernel and leads directly to a lot of the irritation that's been
> coming out on the list.

The whole reason I proposed the session (in addition to information
sharing) is to get feedback on our work from those who don't participate
and be coordinated as possible with the work you, Greg and others not in
our coalition do in your GPL compliance efforts. We're obviously already
in touch with those who are in our coalition. :)

> I just said that I think there's a viable way forward from the
> worst case outcome and the LF has been funding the tool work we'll need
> to survive in that world.

Conservancy has coordinated with these efforts. We've discussed the tool
extensively with its primary author and gave feedback from our work to
inform its progress.  We're glad they plan to release their newer tools
(and most importantly, curated data) soon under a free and open license.
The base tools used for that work, of course, Conservancy has already
been using for some time in our compliance work:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vmware-code-similarity.html

karen