GitHub is my copilot
GitHub is my copilot
Posted Jul 19, 2021 2:08 UTC (Mon) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)In reply to: GitHub is my copilot by NYKevin
Parent article: GitHub is my copilot
There is usually zero economic harm from GPL violations (at least easily demonstrable to the copyright holder), so I think I'm going to have to disagree with you here.
> Or at most, you should have a claim to nominal damages and equitable enforcement of the license (i.e. an injunction), not statutory damages of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An injunction against GPL violations seems good but I don't think nominal damages are appropriate based on what I read on WikiPedia, instead it should be restitutionary/disgorgement damages (where they pay back their ill-gotten gains), or possibly punitive damages or both, or something like paying for consultancy to help them come back into GPL compliance, or paying legal costs for bringing a suit against whoever they received the violating software from.
Posted Jul 19, 2021 14:55 UTC (Mon)
by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
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OTOH, money damages are perfect for the proprietary software crowd because they become the profit that the company was trying to make in the first place.
Side note:
> WikiPedia
They stopped using CamelCase links in 2002. Why do people still write their name like this?
GitHub is my copilot