Re: Organisation for enforcement of GPL3 licensing

Thank you for writing a list of other parties which might be suitable, as I had
solicited in my first post.

The FSF I had already looked into. It looks like they only accept projects as
part of GNU. This project does not fit in, but some other GNU projects also
seem to me not to be a typical part of a unix. Being part of GNU is unacceptable
and undesirable for a few reasons:

- (simplified) FSF insists on a disclaimer from the employer or school of the
contributor.
"we also need a signed disclaimer from your employer or school. This disclaimer
should be signed by a vice president or general manager of the company."
This, to me and I think many others, is an unacceptable impediment to
contribution. Think Lucid/Xemacs fork.

- FSF insists on either assignment of copyright or disclaimer of interest. 1 is
sometimes impossible. Both are undesirable.

- I would rather not be confined to their system and coding Standards. You can
read my recent plea for an adjustment of 1 standard on the Emacs-devel mailing
list recently. I expect that if one tries to improve other GNU standards they
would usually or always not be altered and responses will include some version
of, "We won't change it because that is how we do it and we do it that way
because that is how we do it." What I know of Debian Policy however is less
intrusive and fine.

SFLC has the Software Freedom Conservancy, which looked like a good match in
principle though they sound a bit picky about projects they participate with, so
I wrote them on September 16th. I have not yet received a reply.

gpl-violations.org has not done this sort of thing, but it looks consistent with
their goals, so maybe they will be interested in this new variation. Thank you
for this idea I had not come upon. I was acquainted with them but falsely
presumed that they & SFLC were 1.