SFLC expands GPL compliance efforts to Samba, Linux and other projects

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Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29, 2012 @10:03AM

An anonymous reader writes "Conservancy is dedicated to encouraging all users of software to comply with Free Software licenses. Toward this goal, in its compliance efforts, Conservancy helps distributors of Free Software in a friendly spirit of cooperation and participation. "Conservancy's Free Software compliance work always centers around assisting companies to become productive and cooperative participants in Free Software development", said Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director of Conservancy. Kuhn added: "I'm excited that so many projects have joined BusyBox to show their commitment to compliance efforts. I look forward to working with this large team to improve compliance with Free Software licenses throughout the software industry."

In addition to the new GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers, Samba, and BusyBox, many other Conservancy projects communicated their solidarity in encouraging and seeking compliance. Conservancy's Evergreen, Inkscape, Mercurial, Sugar Labs, and Wine projects have all requested Conservancy to handle any compliance issues for their projects should they occur. Conservancy remains committed to providing this service, and a myriad of other services for its growing list of member projects.

This news was also discussed in the latest episode of the Free as in Freedom Oggcast:

http://faif.us/cast/2012/may/29/0x2A/"
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