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Eben Moglen opines on
the role of the Linux Foundation, and on GPL enforcement in general.
“LF will be as favorable to copyleft as its members are. Copyleft
licensing is easy for businesses to doubt: required sharing of work that
could be instead ‘owned’ by the capital investors seems to be mere loss in
conventional calculations. I have spent most of my adult lifetime not
telling businesses that copyleft was in their interest, but educating them
about copyleft and others’ experience with it, in order to allow them to
draw their own conclusions. Experience has taught me that this process,
though uncertain and unscalable, is absolutely crucial to the attainment of
the free software movement’s fundamental objectives. It is, however, all
too easily destroyed by any form of overly aggressive copyleft enforcement
that fully confirms businesspeople’s skepticism.”