We had the chance to interview James Vasile, an attorney with the Software
Freedom Law Center (SFLC). Now people often think of the SFLC as the
group that “goes after” people who violate the GPL, and that’s certainly the aspect that the press focuses on, but James points out that enforcement is a very
small percentage of what they do. More interesting were James insights
into how businesses learn that their secret sauce has very little to do with
locking up the code. And if you’re looking for more, James maintains his own blog at hackervisions.org
- The role of the Software Freedom Law Center in the world of free software
- Fostering voluntary compliance with the GPL
- Handling violations without putting people on the defensive
- How communities protect themselves with self-regulation
- Negotiating the urge for proprietary “secret sauce” in the marketplace
- Niche markets where open source has not had much impact
