Netfilter project: Settlement with Patrick McHardy

Also, and especially after this settlement, a company that you have a McHardy like go at would seem to be encouraged to get in contact with the netfilter core team to work out a way forward, which does hamper the potential threatening nature of any action you take. In the end a valid copyright claim remains a valid copyright claim, so sure everyone who (believes they) has(ve) one is allowed to pursue that against an infringing company, and the best solution for companies remains to be in compliance, but when not, it does seem that working with them constructively has the most effect for the future to resolve things if they hadn't properly clearly done that before.