This is a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses. It introduces and explains basic legal concepts related to the GPL and its enforcement by copyright holders. It also outlines business practices and methods that lead to better GPL compliance. Finally, it recommends proper post-violation responses to the concerns of copyright holders.
The adoption and growth of the scientific journal system has created a body of shared knowledge for our civilization, a collective long-term memory which is the basis for much of human progress. This system has changed surprisingly little in the last 300 years. The internet offers us the first major opportunity to improve this collective long-term memory, and to create a collective short-term working memory, a conversational commons for the rapid collaborative development of ideas.
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has prepared this document for developers who wish to incorporate permissive-licensed 1 code into GPL’d projects
A. Gunthert. Actualités de la Recherche en histoire visuelle, (August 2008)Actualités de la recherche en histoire visuelle est une publication du Lhivic dirigée par André Gunthert, propulsée par DotClear..