GitHub is my copilot
GitHub is my copilot
Posted Jul 19, 2021 14:55 UTC (Mon) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)In reply to: GitHub is my copilot by pabs
Parent article: GitHub is my copilot
The thing you have to bear in mind is that courts tend to focus on money damages as the default means of making someone whole. Injunctions are dispreferred unless they are the only way to protect the plaintiff from some "irreparable harm." So under the current system, it's easy to sue for statutory damages, but hard to sue for GPL compliance. The most straightforward way to force GPL compliance is to essentially threaten the defendant with money damages and demand that they comply in a settlement agreement. But plenty of defendants will just blow you off and assume that you won't actually litigate.
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?
