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Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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The best outcome would be setting a precedent that allows FOSS organisations to send threatening letters to companies that violate the license. An individual dev maintaining a small library may theoretically be able to win a lawsuit, but practically? lmao good luck
It might be worth something for the open source community to consider open funding for a group that would help devs to do just that. It wouldn't help everyone. But it might help enough to make an impact for everyone.
I think this could even be related to the idea of post-open source that Bruce Perens talked about. An organisation which helps its members handle the business-y parts of running large community projects. They could handle funding, legal representation, marketing and any other support that members may want. A large number of members would make it that much more effective as well.