From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 19:55:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557F660F.4080800@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E5779AD88B2F040B8A7E83ECF544D1A603B3B@SJCPEX01CL03.citrite.net>
On 06/15/2015 07:08 PM, Jeff Haran wrote:
>> Jeff Haran <Jeff.Haran@citrix.com> writes:
>>
>>> What is the downside to a large company for violating GPL?
>>
>> Losing all rights to the software in question forever is probably the largest
>> downside. If we talk about the Linux kernel (as I assume we do in this forum)
>> then I have a hard time believing any company can survive that.
>
> Has this ever actually happened?
>
> Specifically has a company that violated Linux's GPL ever been sued over the violation, lost the case and as a result lost the ability to use the Linux kernel forever?
No, but they have come close, in several lawsuits, mostly in Germany.
All of the companies in question decided that coming into
compliance with the GPL was a better option than losing the
rights to use, copy, distribute, and modify Linux.
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All rights reversed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-15 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-10 9:19 Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy Chris Packham
2015-06-11 4:58 ` Jason Ball
2015-06-11 5:10 ` Chris Packham
2015-06-11 5:19 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 14:28 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:41 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 15:38 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 16:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 17:54 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 17:57 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 23:26 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-11 23:37 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 23:55 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 0:13 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-12 1:28 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-12 23:29 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 15:40 ` Bjørn Mork
2015-06-13 19:08 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-15 23:08 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-15 23:55 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2015-06-16 16:23 ` Jeff Haran
2015-06-13 16:23 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-14 21:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <B424B28F-AB7E-4972-95BB-FF91D85D0FED@gmail.com>
2015-06-14 23:29 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
[not found] ` <557E0FF7.1000607@gmail.com>
2015-06-15 2:08 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 0:52 ` Greg KH
2015-06-12 3:31 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-12 4:39 ` Ruben Safir
2015-06-12 7:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-06-11 13:13 ` Rik van Riel
2015-06-11 14:27 ` Greg KH
2015-06-11 14:25 ` Greg KH
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