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I post this here because while I support the ideology behind copyleft (using copyright to guarantee freedom), I feel like I could not enforce it on my own. That (among other reasons) is why my current artistic works are published under the CC0 1.0 license. I haven't written software yet, but I will have to soon for my job and the licensing issue will inevitably come up. How do the artists and coders among you deal with this issue?
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It's very rare for litigation to be necessary to enforce copyleft licenses. All that's usually necessary is politely (and privately) explaining to the infringer about the violation and how to correct it. In the rare cases where more difficult measures like litigation are necessary, there are organizations like the Software Freedom Conservancy and Software Freedom Law Center.
"It's very rare for litigation to be necessary to enforce copyleft licenses. All that's usually necessary is politely (and privately) explaining to the infringer about the violation and how to correct it."
Indeed. Conservancy recently published some key principles and that's in there:
https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html
"How do the artists and coders among you deal with this issue?"
I always use copyleft. The license (or not) selected serves as a constitution, and strong copyleft reflects my own beliefs and values.
I'm a huge copyleft supporter myself. I guess here would be a good place to say THANK YOU to everybody who has contributed to software that is free and will stay free.
The FSF however recommends a more complicated licensing strategy, or at least some exceptions:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
I think having a holistic view is very important. We must optimize and maximize and that requires careful planning. It's just like in GPL enforcement the FSF doesn't strive to punish the violator or get a lot of money out of an infringement or anything else but instead concentrates on bringing them to compliance. I think it's outright beautiful and will probably serve the cause better.
On the subject of the first post I think it's a sorry state of things when only a rich man can get justice. This is something that needs to be fixed.
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