The netfilter project [1] hereby declares its official endorsement of the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement [2] (the "Principles") as published by the Software Freedom Conservancy [3] and the Free Software Foundation [4]. The software of the netfilter project is primarily released under the GNU General Public License. We strongly believe that license compliance is an important factor in the Free Software model. In the absence of voluntary license compliance, license enforcement is a necessary tool to ensure all parties adhere to the same set of fair rules as set forth by the license. On the other hand, we also believe that any enforcement action should always be focused on compliance, never prioritize financial gain, never settle for less than compliance and consider legal action in court only as a last resort. We, the undersigned, pledge to perform license enforcement only in accordance with said "Principles". We also invite and encourage any other former or current netfilter developers and contributors to express their support for this statement by co-signing it. Please contact coreteam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for details. Amsterdam, June 29, 2016, Pablo Neira Ayuso (head of core team) Jozsef Kadlecsik (core team member) Florian Westphal (core team member) Eric Leblond (core team member) Harald Welte (emeritus core team member) A full copy of this statement and the "Principles“ is available on our website [5]. [1] http://www.netfilter.org [2] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html [3] https://sfconservancy.org [4] https://www.fsf.org [5] http://www.netfilter.org/files/statement.pdf -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
