Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement
Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement
Posted Feb 1, 2012 12:42 UTC (Wed) by sorpigal (guest, #36106)In reply to: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement by rahvin
Parent article: Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement
> You're saying one cost (proprietary) is acceptable and expected, but the cost of GPL compliance is this big unexpected completely unreasonable thing.
It's not reasonableness. Upfront costs are predictable and well understood. GPL compliance costs are variable and not well understood. Once you're out of some executive's comfort zone it's a hard sell.
In addition, compliance failure for proprietary stuff tends to be "monetary damages" and, rarely, an injunction preventing further sales. Again, lump sum payments and nothing further to worry about. For GPL you move again outside of the comfort zone.