<story><title>Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM</title><url>https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that the FSF actively defends copyright on GNU projects.  They do not defend other projects, but they will consult with attorneys on matters of the licenses themselves.&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I (and I&amp;#x27;m sure many others here on HN) would enjoy seeing the response from the FSF.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>So far I&amp;#x27;ve also emailed the FSF (license-violation@gnu.org) and am currently awaiting a response.</text></item><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>Great to see companies getting exposed for these kinds of violations.  However, their response of shooting the messenger tells me that they will not simply roll over and give up their source code.&lt;p&gt;I strongly suggest contacting the owners of the open source projects and talking them into having a lawyer send a message to them.  Those projects have the necessary legal standing to bring a meaningful copyright infringement case against Voice.ai.&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of lawyers that will send a suitable message, at no cost to the projects, For example, the Software Freedom Law Center [0] provides free consultations and has a good track record.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>This honestly is a really good reason for (A)GPL projects to use at least one GNU (A)GPL licensed dependency.&lt;p&gt;If someone does violate the license on your code, they are also transitively doing it to a bigger, angrier fish as well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Voice.ai: GPL Violations with a Side of DRM</title><url>https://undeleted.ronsor.com/voice.ai-gpl-violations-with-a-side-of-drm/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>My understanding (which may be incorrect) is that the FSF actively defends copyright on GNU projects.  They do not defend other projects, but they will consult with attorneys on matters of the licenses themselves.&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless, I (and I&amp;#x27;m sure many others here on HN) would enjoy seeing the response from the FSF.</text></item><item><author>ronsor</author><text>So far I&amp;#x27;ve also emailed the FSF (license-violation@gnu.org) and am currently awaiting a response.</text></item><item><author>voakbasda</author><text>Great to see companies getting exposed for these kinds of violations.  However, their response of shooting the messenger tells me that they will not simply roll over and give up their source code.&lt;p&gt;I strongly suggest contacting the owners of the open source projects and talking them into having a lawyer send a message to them.  Those projects have the necessary legal standing to bring a meaningful copyright infringement case against Voice.ai.&lt;p&gt;There are plenty of lawyers that will send a suitable message, at no cost to the projects, For example, the Software Freedom Law Center [0] provides free consultations and has a good track record.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;softwarefreedom.org&amp;#x2F;about&amp;#x2F;contact&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jraph</author><text>Maybe the Software Freedom Conservancy would be more suitable?&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfconservancy.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sfconservancy.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>