70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators.

10 thoughts on “70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators.”

• Great to see Reneseas, Hitachi and NEC on the good side. Maybe they can do a proper Japanese home grown linux foundation.

• Duh, you invited corporations in, and helped them chase most of the people behind the foundation out using hair-brained political takes. Companies are not your friend, people are.

• as if the free software foundation will ever actually do anything other than bitch about non-free software

• To be fair, Intel won't contact you, because they don't care about independent journalists 🙂

• Passports? That is just evil.

• Corporatism turns everything to garbage.

• So, if a wealthy investor wants to sue them for GPL violations could you figure out how to do it?

• I used to work at ericsson and you are right that they are not a violator of GPL. They actually have software that scans all files to look for licenses and all external software has to go through a license check process with a special team. All external libraries are also listed with download links to the source code for the customers to see, even if the license doesn't require ericsson to do so. LGPL is allowed at ericsson but GPL is not.
  Some companies take licenses very seriously.

• It's crazy that they don't require Linux or Linux-related development from the board members. It is as though they wish it to die off.

  I also wonder how many are GPL violators of the kernel itself.

• Sad but true!
  New World Order agenda. Vaccines, green energy etc. etc.
  Money talks, Linux walks.
  This is the sad reality, for some years now.

  Better find a small distribution (Devuan, PCLinux etc. There are many) and stay away from the mainstream ones.
  Also, you can give BSD, a try.

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