On 06/11/2015 07:37 PM, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 06/11/2015 07:26 PM, Ruben Safir wrote: > >> Not at all. You have a good point there are definitely legal situations >> other than relicensing which are problematic. >> >> Lets say Apple decides that are going to take the Linux Kernel and >> alter it extensively, in order for it to work with a new hardware platform >> that they created. And lets say don't return the code base to the public. >> Now who is going to protect the license and sue them? You have literaly >> thousands of partiticpants who have standing now in this case. > > That means a thousand possible plaintiffs. > > s/Apple/VMware/ and you get this: > > http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/ > > A number of GPL enforcement projects involving the Linux kernel > have resulted in GPL compliance already. > yeah, I've been following this case...it is an interesting case but not exacly on point. First of all the case is in Germany and their rules of standing are different. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
