Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL enforcement actions

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 09:18:30PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-07-07 at 13:00 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > As those "efforts" are being driven by the developers of the kernel, I
> > think that the developers involved would be the best to present this,
> > not the SF Conservancy people.  As you point out, the SFLC is just the
> > lawyers being hired by the developers to do what they want them to do :)
> 
> A lot of those developers will be in the room too, of course.
> 
> But the "efforts" are being driven *by* Conservancy on *behalf* of
> those developers who have asked Conservancy to do so. And I suspect
> someone from Conservancy is better placed to give up-to-date
> information about what's actually happening "on the ground".
> 
> The point is to get people in the room and have a direct discussion
> without hearsay or misinformation — and doing that *without* someone
> from Conservancy doesn't really make much sense.

I'm inclined to agree with David.  I'm not casting any aspersions
on Bradly or the Conservancy, but I definitely think they are heavy
influencers with regard to this topic.

John
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