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A community take on the license compliance industry

By Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian, OSI, IRILL

The license compliance industry purportedly helps information technology companies and other actors to use publicly available software, and in particular free software, in a way that is compliant with the relevant free software licenses. This talk reviews why the license compliance industry exists and discuss, from an external point of view, how it operates. It also highlights some potential ethical issues on the current best practices for license compliance in the industry, and proposes community-oriented alternatives that we can build, today, on top of the existing corpus of publicly available free software.

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This talk was presented at LibrePlanet.

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That term was coined to reject our views. It refers to similar practices, but usually presented solely as advantageous, without talking of right and wrong.

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Richard Stallman launched the free software movement in 1983 by announcing development of the free operating system, GNU. By 1992, GNU was nearly operational; one major essential component was lacking, the kernel.

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In 1992, Torvalds freed the kernel Linux, which filled the last gap in GNU. Since then, the combined GNU/Linux system has run in millions of computers. Nowadays you can buy a new computer with a totally free GNU/Linux system preinstalled.

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