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@ -75,16 +75,17 @@ reports, Welte successfully pursued many enforcements in Europe, including
formal legal action. Harald earns the permanent fame as the first copyright formal legal action. Harald earns the permanent fame as the first copyright
holder to bring legal action in a Court regarding GPL compliance. holder to bring legal action in a Court regarding GPL compliance.
In 2007, the SFLC filed the first U.S.~copyright infringement lawsuit In 2007, two copyright holders in BusyBox, in conjunction with the
based on a violation of the GPL\@. While the lawsuits filed by SFLC on Software Freedom Conservancy (``Conservancy''), filed the first copyright infringement lawsuit
behalf of its clients have been quite public, SFLC resolves the vast based on a violation of the GPL\@ in the USA. While lawsuits are of course
majority of enforcement actions privately via quite public, the vast majority of Conservancy's enforcement actions
cooperative communications with violators. As we have worked to bring are resolved privately via
individual companies into compliance, we have encountered numerous cooperative communications with violators. As both FSF and Conservancy has worked to bring
individual companies into compliance, both organizations have encountered numerous
violations resulting from preventable problems such as inadequate violations resulting from preventable problems such as inadequate
attention to licensing of upstream software, misconceptions about the attention to licensing of upstream software, misconceptions about the
GPL's terms, and poor communication between software developers and their GPL's terms, and poor communication between software developers and their
management. In this document, we highlight these problems and describe management. This document highlights these problems and describe
best practices to encourage corporate Free Software users to reevaluate their best practices to encourage corporate Free Software users to reevaluate their
approach to GPL'd software and avoid future violations. approach to GPL'd software and avoid future violations.