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| build guru to document his or her work! | ||||
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| % \section{Non-Technical Compliance Issues} | ||||
| \section{Non-Technical Compliance Issues} | ||||
| 
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| Compliance with GPLv2 \S7 is therefore a matter of legal review rather than | ||||
| technical or engineering practice. | ||||
| Certainly, the overwhelming majority of compliance issues are, in fact, | ||||
| either procedural or technical.  Thus, the primary material in this chapter | ||||
| so far has covered those issues.  However, a few compliance issues do require | ||||
| more direct consideration of a legal situation.  This portion guide does not | ||||
| consider those in detail, as a careful reading of the earlier chapters of | ||||
| Part~\ref{gpl-lgpl-part} shows various places where legal considerations are | ||||
| necessary for considering compliance activity. | ||||
| 
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| %FIXME-URGENT: integrate | ||||
| %  Possibly call this: \section{Self-Assessment of Compliance} | ||||
| For example, specific compliance issues related to | ||||
| \hyperref[GPLv2s7]{GPLv2\S7}, \hyperref[GPLv3s7]{GPLv3\S7}, and | ||||
| \hyperref[GPLv3s7]{GPLv3\S11} demand a more traditional approach to legal | ||||
| license compliance.  Of course, such analysis and consideration can be | ||||
| complicated, and some are considered in the enforcement case studies that | ||||
| follow in the next part.  However, compliance issues related to such sections | ||||
| are not rare, and, as is typical, no specific training is available for | ||||
| dealing with extremely rare occurrences. | ||||
| 
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| \section{FIXME} | ||||
| \section{Self-Assessment of Compliance} | ||||
| 
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| %FIXME-URGENT: integrate | ||||
| Most companies that adopt copylefted software believe they have complied. | ||||
| Humans usually have difficult admitting their own mistakes, particularly | ||||
| systematic ones.  Therefore, perhaps the most important necessary step to | ||||
| stay in compliance is a company's regular evaluation of their own compliance. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Measure your compliance from the position of the user downstream from you | ||||
| trying to exercise rights conveyed by the licenses. Has the user received | ||||
| notice of the copylefted software intentionally included in your product?  Is | ||||
| complete, corresponding source code and applicable installation information | ||||
| available to the user easily, preferably by automated means?  Tools that | ||||
| measure what you deliver are more valuable than tools that only measure what | ||||
| you build. | ||||
| First, exercise a request CCS for all copylefted works from all your upstream | ||||
| providers of software and of components embedding software.  Then, perform | ||||
| your own CCS check on this material first, and verify that it meets the | ||||
| requirements.  This tutorial presents later a case study of a CEGEO's CCS | ||||
| check in \S~\ref{pristine-example}, which you can emulate when examining | ||||
| their own CCS\@. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Always exercise your own right to request complete and corresponding source | ||||
| code for all copylefted works from all your providers of software and of | ||||
| components embedding software, preferably in an automated process directly | ||||
| feeding your overall software governance system. Where possible, reject as | ||||
| non-conforming components provided to you containing copylefted software for | ||||
| which complete and corresponding source code is not furnished in response to | ||||
| your request or which is not accompanied by a ``stackmark'' for automated | ||||
| provisioning of source code. If you rely on an upstream provider for your | ||||
| software you cannot ignore your GPL compliance requirements simply because | ||||
| someone else packaged the software that you distribute. | ||||
| Second, measure all copyleft compliance from the position of the | ||||
| users\footnote{Realizing of course that user very well may not be your own | ||||
|   customer.} downstream from you exercising their rights under GPL\@.  Have | ||||
| those users received notice of the copylefted software included in your | ||||
| product?  Is CCS available to the users easily (preferably by automated | ||||
| means)?  Ask yourself these questions frequently.  If you cannot answer these | ||||
| questions with certainty in the positive, dig deeper and modify your process. | ||||
| 
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| %FIXME-URGENT: integrate | ||||
| %  Possibly call this: \section{Third-Party Compliance Assessors} | ||||
| 
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| \section{FIXME} | ||||
| 
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| 
 | ||||
| Concentrate on the copylefted software you know you are using. Historically, | ||||
| the risk from a copylefted code snippet that some programmer dropped in your | ||||
| Avoid ``compliance industry'' marketing distractions and concentrate on the | ||||
| copylefted software you already know is in your product.  Historically, the | ||||
| risk from a copylefted code snippet that some programmer dropped in your | ||||
| proprietary product careless of the consequences is a problem far more | ||||
| infrequent and less difficult to resolve. Efficient management of the risks | ||||
| infrequent and less difficult to resolve.  Efficient management of the risks | ||||
| of higher concern lies in making sure you can provide, for example, precisely | ||||
| corresponding source code and makefiles for a copy of the Coreboot | ||||
| bootloader, Linux kernel, Busybox, or GNU tar that you included in a product | ||||
| you shipped two years ago. | ||||
| CCS for a copy of Coreboot, the kernel named Linux, Busybox, or GNU tar that | ||||
| you included in a product your company shipped two years ago than in the risk | ||||
| of 10 lines of GPL'd Java code an engineer accidentally pasted into the | ||||
| source of your ERP system. | ||||
| 
 | ||||
| Don’t rely blindly on code scanners as they work too late in the process to | ||||
| improve your governance and too early in the process to catch problems in | ||||
| your delivery and post-sale provisioning. They do less important parts of the | ||||
| job expensively, and more important parts of the job not at all. Use them, | ||||
| where they are cost-effective, as a supplement to your own governance and | ||||
| verification processes, not as a primary tool of risk management. | ||||
| 
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| %FIXME-URGENT: END | ||||
| Thus, reject the ``compliance industry'' suggestions that code scanners find | ||||
| and help solve fundamental compliance problems.  Consider how CEGEO's tend to | ||||
| use code scanners.  FOSSology is indeed an important part of a violation | ||||
| investigation, but such is the last step and catches only some (usually | ||||
| minor) licensing notice problems.  Thus, code scanners can help solve minor | ||||
| compliance problems once you have resolved the major ones.  Code scanners | ||||
| do not manage risk. | ||||
| 
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| \chapter{When The Letter Comes} | ||||
| 
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| 
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| % FIXME: make this section properly TeX-formatted | ||||
| \chapter{ThinkPenguin Wireless Router: Excellent CCS} | ||||
| \label{pristine-example} | ||||
| 
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| Too often, case studies examine failure and mistakes.  Indeed, most of the | ||||
| chapters that follow herein will consider the myriad difficulties discovered | ||||
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| \part{Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related Licenses} | ||||
| \label{gpl-lgpl-part} | ||||
| 
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| \tutorialpartsplit{``Detailed Analysis of the GNU GPL and Related Licenses''}{This part} is: \\ | ||||
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