Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
In some sense, not much has changed: if you were obligated to comply with the GPL two weeks ago, you have the same obligations today. If you didn’t have obligations then, you don’t have them now.What has changed is who can enforce those obligations. Two weeks ago, we mostly believed that enforcement could only come from the authors of the code. Those folks rarely had time, money, or interest for litigation, and they might also face a lot of pressure from their peers and employers to avoid litigation.
If this ruling holds up at the end of the case, the number of potential enforcers just went way up.
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