FSF Uses Unproven Compliance Issue to Promote GPLv3

Brian Proffitt | IT World | August 22, 2011

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), in its quest to promote version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) over the GPLv2, has joined the chorus of observers who have made broad hints that vendors within the Android operating system ecosystem are guilty of some violation of the GPLv2.

...No mention was made in the press release from the FSF as to specific Android violations or violators of the GPLv2, nor any pending non-compliance legal action. But the FSF seems more than willing to jump on this bandwagon to further promote GPLv3 over GPLv2...

...if there are valid claims of GPLv2 violations by Android vendors, then they must be addressed, and all of these arguments will certainly have more teeth. But until that day comes, why is it appropriate for the FSF to essentially throw the GPLv2 license (and thus any project or vendor using the GPLv2) under the bus before any violations have been credibly claimed? Is the FSF so desperate it has to use FUD against one ideal of the free software community to promote another ideal it considers "better"? Is that really what freedom means?...