The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance

Posted May 24, 2018 23:25 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance by faramir
Parent article: The Software Freedom Conservancy on Tesla's GPL compliance

If all companies that use the GPL improperly failed, I for one would be worse off than I am now. No updates for my TV, my phone, or my car, for instance.

In many cases, however, the problem isn't the company that makes my phone anyway. The problem is the company that makes some key components for my phone. Or rather, the problem is that the way the GPL is written you can't sue them for infringement because they don't convey the binaries in question to you.