Jumping the licensing shark

Posted May 3, 2023 14:18 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341)
In reply to: Jumping the licensing shark by paulj
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Another possibility is the one farnz lays out: https://lwn.net/Articles/930730/

- McHardy got them to sign to agree to stop violating.
- Company agrees and signs
- Company does work to remove McHardy's Flobble module from their product, updates the product, and wilfully keeps on violating the remaining code.
- McHardy comes back:

"Our agreement bound you to stop violating /any/ of Linux, not just my code in it that you removed".

Which still means the company _did work_ so they could keep wilfully violating the licence on the code, thinking they could workaround McHardy!

It appears these companies must have been active, wilful GPL violators?