Published on Tux Machines (http://www.tuxmachines.org) Home > content > Free Software: GNU Taler, GNU Releases, and GPL Enforcement Free Software: GNU Taler, GNU Releases, and GPL Enforcement By Roy Schestowitz Created 02/10/2020 - 3:13am Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 2nd of October 2020 03:13:50 AM Filed under GNU [1] 2020-10: GNU Taler presentation by Javier Sepúlveda in Valencia [2] Javier Sepúlveda will give a talk in Spanish about GNU Taler at Valencia at an event organized by the GNU/Linux group from Valencia, which is a public organization supported by the Valencia City Hall to promote urban innovation and entrepreneurship. FSF Blogs: September GNU spotlight with Mike Gerwitz: Twelve new releases![3] binutils-2.35.1 bison-3.7.2 dico-2.10 gama-2.10 global-6.6.5 gnuastro-0.13 gnunet-0.13.3 gnupg-2.2.23 gnu-pw-mgr-2.7.2 grep-3.5 parallel-20200922 pspp-1.4.1 Conservancy Announces New Strategy for GPL Enforcement and Related Work, Receives Grant from ARDC[4] Software Freedom Conservancy, the only organization actively engaged in General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance work for Linux, announces today a new strategy toward improving compliance and the freedom of users of devices that contain Linux-based systems. The new work has received an initial grant from Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC). [...] We take this holistic approach because compliance is not an end in itself, but rather a lever to help people advance technology for themselves and the world. Bradley Kuhn, Conservancy?s Policy Fellow and Hacker-in-Residence remarked: ?GPL enforcement began as merely an education process more than twenty years ago. We all had hoped that industry-wide awareness of copyleft?s essential role in spreading software freedom would yield widespread, spontaneous compliance. We were simply wrong about that. Today, we observe almost universal failure in compliance throughout the (so-called) Internet of Things (IoT) market. Only unrelenting enforcement that holds companies accountable can change this abysmal reality. ARDC, a visionary grant-maker, recognizes the value of systemic enforcement that utilizes the legal system to regain software freedom. That process also catalyzes community- led projects to build liberated firmware for many devices.? [...] Rosy Wolfe, ARDC?s Executive Director commented: ?GPL enforcement is notoriously difficult, and yet it is necessary to deter self-serving actors who want the benefits of community software but won?t follow the rules. Thus Conservancy?s efforts in this arena are critical, and we are honored to support them in this work.? GNU Source URL: http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/142778 Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/144 [2] https://taler.net/en/news/2020-10.html [3] http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/september-gnu-spotlight-with-mike-gerwitz-twelve-new-releases [4] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/oct/01/new-copyleft-strategy-launched-with-ARDC-grant/.