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Tero Keski-Valkama (tero@rukii.net)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 10:25:42 JST Tero Keski-Valkama

#JohnDeere's ongoing #GPL #violations: What's next - #Conservancy Blog - #SoftwareFreedomConservancy
"As we have been doing privately for multiple years, we now publicly call on John #Deere to immediately resolve all of its outstanding GPL violations, across all lines of its #farm equipment, by providing complete source code, including "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable" that the GPL and other #copyleft #licenses require, to the #farmers and others who are entitled to it, by the licenses that Deere chose to use."
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/
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  I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow crops and manage the farm business. My parents also found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers have done for millennia, my family used tools to farm. Some of those tools were tractors. Farmers now, as they have for thousands of years, rely on their ability and right to fix their tools. Perhaps that's bending a hand rake back into shape. Maybe they need to weld a broken three-point hitch back together. Agriculture was humanity's first truly revolutionary technological advancement. Since its inception, each generation of farmers exercised their right to repair their tools. This has allowed agriculture to grow and improve immeasurably. We take for granted the benefits that this has given us, and the abundance of food it provides.

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