A Comprehensive Strategic Plan for Copyleft Freedom on Linux
summary
Conservancy claims GPL compliance is dire: for years most Linux-based IoT devices fail to provide buildable source and the last two years yield virtually no compliance. Contribution ownership shifts to corporations, reducing individual control. Action plan uses litigation, policy work, and engineering to build alternative firmware, convert released source into reproducible builds, and pursue lawsuit before end of 2021 funded by an ARDC grant to enforce copyleft across millions of IoT devices.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Start
- 5:16Imagine Proprietary Non-Compliance
- 8:26Widespread GPL Non-Compliance
- 12:55Enforcement Spawns Communities
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