Kernel contributions from organisations and individual privacy

[Ruben Safir]

On 06/11/2015 07:37 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On 06/11/2015 07:26 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> 
>> Not at all.  You have a good point there are definitely legal situations
>> other than relicensing which are problematic.
>>
>> Lets say Apple decides that are going to take the Linux Kernel and
>> alter it extensively, in order for it to work with a new hardware platform 
>> that they created. And lets say don't return the code base to the public.  
>> Now who is going to protect the license and sue them?  You have literaly 
>> thousands of partiticpants who have standing now in this case.
> 
> That means a thousand possible plaintiffs.
> 
> s/Apple/VMware/ and you get this:
> 
> http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/
> 
> A number of GPL enforcement projects involving the Linux kernel
> have resulted in GPL compliance already.
> 

yeah, I've been following this case...it is an interesting case but not
exacly on point.  First of all the case is in Germany and their rules of
standing are different.