A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Mar 5, 2015 21:38 UTC (Thu) by agrover (guest, #55381)
In reply to: A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware by realnc
Parent article: A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Well they just now got sued. Up until now it could have been something they were assuming nobody would actually ever sue them over. Now they can negotiate a settlement, or not settle and proceed with the actual trial, discovery, etc. (IANAL)

A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

Posted Mar 5, 2015 21:48 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link]

It seems to me that this suit and trial is the process by which to find out exactly what the truth of the matter is, whether VMware is abiding by the GPL and not appropriating code written by other people in inappropriate ways. Even if they demonstrate their innocence and the SFC loses, that is still valuable.