March 2025
Intermediate to advanced
470 pages
12h 45m
English
As you learned previously, thanks to the principles of community-oriented enforcement, for FOSS it’s usually enough to come into compliance once someone points out infringement to you. Sometimes, though, a company or individual either can’t or won’t come into compliance for whatever reason. What happens in a case like that? As you’ve probably come to expect, the answer to that is “it depends.”
Infringing on license terms can mean you can lose your license to use the software in question. For instance, the GPL-3.0 license includes a termination clause:
8 Termination.
You may not propagate or modify a covered work except as expressly provided under this License. Any attempt otherwise to propagate or modify ...
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