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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<html newsdate="2015-03-31">
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<version>1</version>
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<head>
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<title>FSFE supports Hellwig's GPL compliance lawsuit</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>FSFE supports Hellwig's GPL compliance lawsuit</h1>
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<p>FSFE welcomes
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the <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">action</a>
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which Christoph Hellwig and the Software Freedom
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Conservancy are taking to bring VMware into compliance
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with the GNU General Public License.</p>
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<blockquote><p>
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FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff comments: "Free Software
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is a public resource, and it is governed by legal rules
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and social norms. Anyone who draws on this resource
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without respecting those rules and norms does damage to
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the community at large. The great majority of such
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problems are successfully resolved through dialogue and
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goodwill. It is only when dialogue fails that legal steps
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become necessary in order to protect this resource which
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we all share.
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</p></blockquote>
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<p>
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While FSFE regrets that this lawsuit has arisen, we
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believe that safeguarding Free Software against those who
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try to appropriate for themselves what belongs to us all
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is of the utmost importance.
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</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="compliance">Compliance</tag>
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<tag key="gpl">GnuGpl</tag>
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<tag key="legal">Legal</tag>
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<tag key="licensing">Licensing</tag>
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</tags>
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</html>
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