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Our goal is to reduce opportunities for abusive enforcement tactics and, more broadly, to promote greater predictability in the enforcement of GPLv2 and LGPLv2.x licenses. Through this initiative, we hope to increase participation in the use and development of open source software by helping to ensure that enforcement, when it takes place, is fair and predictable.
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When you add your name to the GPL Cooperation Commitment for individuals, you’re telling the world that:
- You support open source community members whose intent is to foster collaboration and participation.
- You expect licensees to comply with the GPL and LGPL when redistributing code.
- You assume positive intent and understand that well-meaning people sometimes make mistakes.
- You have committed to giving licensees a fair chance to correct license violations.
“As President of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), I’m pleased to sign my name to the GPL Cooperation Commitment. This recent initiative by Red Hat helps to set a precedent for cooperation in GPL license enforcement―it’s a way to tell the open source community that good intentions matter. I encourage other members of the community to support this initiative by adding your name. Let’s celebrate the 20th anniversary of Open Source by spreading this everywhere!” -Simon Phipps
Legally, you are agreeing to this commitment:
Solely for any software for which I personally own copyright that is licensed under a Covered License, before filing or continuing to prosecute any legal proceeding or claim (other than a Defensive Action) arising from termination of a Covered License, I commit to extend to the person or entity (“you”) accused of violating the Covered License the following provisions regarding cure and reinstatement, taken from GPL version 3. As used here, the term ‘this License’ refers to the specific Covered License being enforced.
“However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to 60 days after the cessation.
Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after your receipt of the notice.”
I intend this Commitment to be irrevocable, and binding and enforceable against me and assignees of or successors to my copyrights.
Definitions:
‘Covered License’ means the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2), the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 (LGPLv2.1), or the GNU Library General Public License, version 2 (LGPLv2), all as published by the Free Software Foundation.
‘Defensive Action’ means a legal proceeding or claim that I bring against you in response to a prior proceeding or claim initiated by you or your affiliate.
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THE ABOVE COMMITMENT IS AGREED TO BY THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS
Michael K. Dolan Jr. (https://github.com/mkdolan)
Joseph D. Schram
Lon Hohberger
Martin Koller
Clayton Coleman
Scott Marlow (https://github.com/scottmarlow)
Naveen Malik
Winston Lloyd
Jiří Konečný
Máirín Duffy
Adam B Kaplan
Max Rydahl Andersen
Francois Dechery
Narayanan Raghavan
Robbie Harwood (https://github.com/frozencemetery)
Valentin Born (born2webdesign)
David Mair
Martin Kolle
Julen Landa Alustizs
Simon Phipps
Jason Hibbets
Erika Nelson
Tim Burke
Zachary Snyder
Robert Krawitz
Niels de Vos
Mike Bonnet
Maxim Burgerhout
Brian Stansberry
Brent Dunn
Xavi Hernandez
Laurent Vivier
Radek Vokál
Emmanuel Bernard
Carlos Maiolino
Pritesh Kasliwal
Seth Kenlon
Sebastian Dunne
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
Jason Joyce
Sri Sankaran
Pavol Loffay
Harish Pillay
Oscar Carvajal
Patrick Uiterwijk
Benjamin Tissoires
Dave Stanley
Stefan van Oirschot
Masahiro Matsuya
Saravanakumar Arumugam
Tiago Moreira Vieira
Javier Peña
Mariano Fernandez
Alan Conway
Gabriel Szász
Justin M. Forbes
Martin André
Kelly Baugh
Christa Martin
Eric Blake
Margaret Walters
Dan Callaghan
Diane Ferguson
Rene LeBlanc
Sandra Falzarano
Ian Checkley
Jason E. Rist
Sylvia Reyes
Karen Noel
Yuri Lewash
Sheikh Mohammad Sajid
Roland Boemer
Garry Vaughn
John Velayudhan
Margo Doty
Pere Benavent
Pushpender Singh
Paul Sutton
Abu Sakib
Akshay R. Kapadia
Thomas Claesson
Ozgur Kara
Richard King
Ricardo Grant
Daniel Dominguez
Amjad Yaseen
Khaled Algharieb
Elizabeth Rowland
Lucas Dagostino
Hubert Dabrowski
Wolfgang Denk
Rachel Portnoy
Matt Kinney
Ed Hussey
Amy Ross
Chris Negus
Madison Brewer
Jonathan Castro
Андрей Трушников
ปิยะ ผู้นวลงาม
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Sameer Desai
Phil Cassaro
Joe Brockmeier
Eugene Cox
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Richard Monk
Alison Perkins
Payman Damghani
Lee Graham
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Miles Horton
Alex Wood
Paxton Campbell
Ashley Marshall
Kristen Douglas
Betsy Cook
Siddharth Sharma
Sarah Harvey
Scott Stewart
Mark Bowen
Brian Chang
Emily Verdu
Anwar Belayachi
Tabi Savage
Navin Singh
Ted Copeland
Matt Mariani
Vince Conzola
Freshman
Jason Thompson
Jessica Gidney
Teryl Mack
Nathaniel McCallum
Alejandro Sanchez
Larisso Peluso - Fleming
Chikita Isaac
Patrick Cole
Josh Smith
Jess Davis
Nair Hernandez
Aletra Wilkerson
Joshua Good
Jamie Duncan
Yasir Iman
Chelsea Peedin
Syed Ahmed
Juan David Perez O.
Lalatendu Mohanty
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Marco Donkers
Pedro J. Amoedo Martinez
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