More details regarding Christoph's VMware case from Conservancy

Posted Aug 9, 2016 22:51 UTC (Tue) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642)
In reply to: More details regarding Christoph's VMware case from Conservancy by dfsmith
Parent article: Christoph Hellwig's case against VMware dismissed

dfsmith, I think you might be confused. The VMware code for the similarity analysis is public; you can reproduce the entire analysis from scratch if you'd like using the information linked to from the report you read.

Furthermore, as is discussed at length in the ruling, VMware released some but not all of the source code that GPL required them to release. That's why this was the merits of the case (on which the Court did not opine) were about derivative/combined works.