May be to add two things:
- I did not investigate this in detail, so you should doublecheck my claims - I guess they are clever and their open-source claims might of course officially just relate to the past - I think they play very well with gray areas and ambiguities
Nevertheless I feel they try to "hijack" the peoples positive attitude and emotions towards "open source".
Regards
Am 12. Juni 2024 08:54:49 MESZ schrieb "Bernhard E. Reiter" bernhard@fsfe.org:
Hi Ursin,
thanks for the https://auterion.com/ "We’ve been leaders in an open source movement for more than a decade." example.
Am Samstag 01 Juni 2024 09:06:28 schrieb Dr. Trigon:
- What would you suggest to face openwashing?
Make it public.
A first would be to document the false claims or the bad behaviour.
May be consitute an nonprofit organization containing lawers and try to enforce the open-source licences/"contracts".
You may already know it: Enforcing licenses (or copyright/European replication rights) legally usually can only be done by someone who holds rights on a significant part of the software.
Most of the time it makes sense to bring organisations into compliance as intermediate step.
The FSFE (and also our independent sister FSF based in the USA) have enforced licenses in the past or helped to do this. (This is one of the reasons the FSF has demanded copyright assignments for contributions to some GNU software.) Other Free Software organisations have done so as well.
Best, Bernhard
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