Deterrent Effect

Deterrent Effect

Posted Mar 3, 2004 6:46 UTC (Wed) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
In reply to: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement by Carl
Parent article: Another Netfilter GPL enforcement

As stated in the articles the Netfilter team has elected this strategy for a few profile cases in order to have a deterrent effect.

My making a few public examples they are hoping to reduce the enforcement costs and efforts that are necessary by making non-compliance more expensive.
Settling for some donations to appropriate causes also defrays some of the incurred costs of enforcment, so more energy and capital can be devouted to achiving technical goals.

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