«This year, we will press the United States and
other nations
to exert strong leadership in advancing an agenda that extends beyond whaling
to the broader range of
threats that imperil whales throughout our oceans, including ship strikes, chemical and noise pollution, entanglement, oil spills, radioactive
contamination, emerging diseases and climate change,» says Kitty Block, HSI vice president, who will be attending the IWC meeting for the 14th time.
Other risks related
to open source software usage include the potential
contamination of proprietary code through copyleft licenses, such as the various versions of the GNU General Public License («GPL») and the
threat of litigation based on the broad scope of the GPL.