Enforcement

Posted Oct 7, 2009 6:41 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
In reply to: GPL violation? by drag
Parent article: Netgear's open-source router

B is a good point; the GPL doesn't mean anything if the copyright holders don't care about enforcing the license. Has anyone noticed any GPL enforcement for Linux kernel code? I know busybox devs and the FSF are active on that front, and I remember grumbling about proprietary drivers but I don't recall any actual GPL enforcement for Linux code.

Enforcement

Posted Oct 7, 2009 7:11 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

lookup gplviolations.org (IIRC) they have been doing gpl enforcement on the kernel for several years very sucessfully.

they have targeted mostly embedded uses where the entire kernel was shipped without the source being available.

so far (in spite of a lot of talk) nobody has made a court case over a pure 'derived work' situation, and I suspect that in large part it's because when talking to lawyers they have found that it's not as clear cut as they would like it to be

Enforcement

Posted Oct 7, 2009 8:42 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> Has anyone noticed any GPL enforcement for Linux kernel code?

Harald Welte has been doing it for years, the first court injunction was granted in 2004:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=gpl+enforcement+linux+kernel