Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels

Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels

[Eric Appleman]

Background on Anthrax Kernels and their GPL violation:
http://pastebin.com/X5Cciy03

Would anyone be interested in forming such a pool? I am willing to wait 
years for this to be resolved through certain organizations, but I 
believe we can do better.

Last I checked, I have 1 long-time poster of the gpl-violations list on 
board. Would anyone else like to join? Ideally I'd like to get the LKML 
(which I have CC'd among others) involved so that authors of critical 
Linux components be a part of this. I'm not sure if my defconfig commits 
to Android kernel branches count as contributions, so I'm not going to 
consider myself a Linux contributor unless told otherwise.

This pool would be used in the following manner:

* Formally requesting source for binaries (means to request source is 
actively hidden)
* Formally requesting removal of critical copyrighted code that Linux 
cannot function without
* Informing interested parties with respect to refusals of the above

The CTO of Anthrax's hosting server is very interested in terminating 
Chad Goodman's account. Bullet point #3 might come into effect here.

If this is a bad idea, breaks list etiquette, uses incorrect logic, or 
does not follow the conventions of GPL enforcement, feel free to shoot 
this idea down with utmost prejudice.

- Eric

Re: Would like to form a pool of Linux copyright holders for faster GPL enforcement against Anthrax Kernels

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Eric Appleman wrote at 04:26 (EDT) on Saturday:
> Would anyone be interested in forming such a pool? I am willing to
> wait years for this to be resolved through certain organizations, but
> I believe we can do better.

As some on these lists likely already know, Conservancy's GPL Compliance
Project for Linux Developers [0] is aware of this matter and is
considering what actions to take, and how such actions should be ranked
in priority given the queue of the hundreds of known GPL violations on
Linux occurring every day.

We very much appreciate that Eric has brought the matter to our
attention and I'm continuing to correspond with Eric privately in the
hopes that we can resolve the matter.

If anyone wants to join Conservancy's GPL Compliance Project for Linux
Developers, please do contact me!

[0] More details on Conservancy's GPL Compliance Project for Linux
    Developers can be found at
    https://sfconservancy.org/news/2012/may/29/compliance/

Sincerely,
-- 
Bradley M. Kuhn, Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy