On reimbursement of costs for enforcement actions & related issues

The moral and practical imperative must be to ensure that GPL compliance is more attractive than not, by taking stern action against at least some violators. The best way to make sure action can be taken is for that action to be self-sustaining - paying for the action taken at least, ideally also punitive costs that can then be used to pre-pay for the next action. Anything less would surely be doing a _disservice_ to the viability of the GPL?

See also: https://paul.jakma.org/2009/12/21/killing-free-software-w...

The one cautionary bit is that such actions mustn't put off more people from going with GPL software than are attracted to it.