Congratulations to Tesla on Their First Public Step Toward GPL Compliance
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Congratulations to Tesla on Their First Public Step Toward GPL Compliance
Conservancy rarely talks publicly about specifics in its ongoing GNU General Public License (GPL) enforcement and compliance activity, in accordance with our Principles of Community Oriented GPL Enforcement. We usually keep our compliance matters confidential — not for our own sake — but for the sake of violators who request discretion to fix their mistakes without fear of public reprisal. As occurred a few years ago with Samsung, we're thrilled when a GPL violator decides to talk about their violation and works to correct it publicly. This gives us the opportunity to shine light on the real-world work of GPL and copyleft compliance.
We're thus glad that, this week, Tesla has acted publicly regarding its current GPL violations and has announced that they've taken their first steps toward compliance. While Tesla acknowledges that they still have more work to do, their recent actions show progress toward compliance and a commitment to getting all the way there.
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Tesla releases some of its software to comply with open source licences
Tesla is a software-heavy company and it has been using a lot of open source software to build its operating system and features, such as Linux Kernel, Buildroot, Busybox, QT, and more.
Some of the copyright holders have been complaining that Tesla hasn’t been complying with their licenses.
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The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance
The Software Freedom Conservancy has put out a blog posting on the history and current status of Tesla's GPL compliance issues.
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