From 4c852afa2640b432e0b4a8c19dcf9b0f37277492 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2021 12:24:28 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Remove items that are time-focused; adapt for Conservancy's site --- .../copyleft-compliance/principles.html | 37 ++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/copyleft-compliance/principles.html b/www/conservancy/static/copyleft-compliance/principles.html index 4fe793ca..d369c3cd 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/copyleft-compliance/principles.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/copyleft-compliance/principles.html @@ -24,25 +24,19 @@ these situations, many companies comply properly, but some companies also try to bend or even break the GPL's rules to their perceived advantage.

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software Freedom Conservancy - (Conservancy) today lead worldwide efforts to ensure compliance with - the GPL family of licenses. The FSF began copyleft enforcement - in the 1980s, and Conservancy has enforced the GPL for many of - its member projects since its founding nearly a decade ago. Last - year, the FSF and Conservancy jointly - published Copyleft and - the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and - Guide, which includes sections such as +

The Software Freedom Conservancy leads worldwide efforts to + ensure compliance with the GPL family of licenses. Conservancy has enforced + the GPL for many of its member projects since its founding in 2006. Conservancy also helped + published, and hosts, Copyleft and the GNU + General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide + (often called the “Copyleft Guide”), + which includes sections such as “A Practical Guide to GPL Compliance” and “Case - Studies in GPL Enforcement”, which explain the typical - process that both the FSF and Conservancy follow in their GPL - enforcement actions. (Shorter descriptions of these processes appear - in blog posts written - by the - FSF - and Conservancy.)

+ Studies in GPL Enforcement”. Those sections explain the typical process + that Conservancy follows in our GPL enforcement + actions. (A Shorter descriptions of these processes appeared in earlier blog post.)

As stalwarts of the community's freedom, we act as a proxy for users when companies impede the rights to copy, share, modify, and/or @@ -63,7 +57,8 @@ licenses. We must take care, in copyleft enforcement, to focus on the ultimate freedom-spreading purpose of copyleft, and not fall into an overzealous or punitive approach, or into legitimizing inherently unjust aspects of the copyright regime. -Therefore Conservancy and the FSF do enforcement according to community-oriented principles originally formulated by the FSF in 2001. +Therefore Conservancy does enforcement according to community-oriented + principles originally formulated by other community leaders in 2001.

Guiding Principles in Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement

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  • Our primary goal in GPL enforcement is to bring about GPL compliance. Copyleft's overarching policy goal is to make respect of users' freedoms the norm. -The FSF designed the GNU GPL's text towards this end. +The GNU GPL's text is designed towards this end. Copyleft enforcement done in this spirit focuses on stopping incorrect distribution, encouraging corrected distribution, and addressing damage done to the community and users by the past @@ -191,11 +186,11 @@ communities.

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    This document is also published on FSF's site.

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    We revise these principles from time to time based on community feedback. Please subscribe to our principles-discuss list to follow the discussion and share your thoughts with us.

    +Please subscribe to our principles-discuss list to follow the discussion and share your thoughts with us.

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    Copyright © 2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., Bradley M. Kuhn, Allison Randal, Karen M. Sandler. +

    Copyright © 2021, Software Freedom Conservancy.
    + Copyright © 2015, Free Software Foundation, Inc., Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc., Bradley M. Kuhn, Allison Randal, Karen M. Sandler.
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