In the time leading up to the next Kernel Summit topics are presented and discussed beforehand on the Ksummit-discuss mailing list. There [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues was introduced. Even though Linus is not subscribed to this list he speaks his mind, bluntly. A good read.
I'm not aware of anybody but the lawyers and crazy people that were happy about how the BusyBox situation ended up. Please pipe up if you actually know differently. All it resulted in was a huge amount of bickering, and both individual and commercial developers and users fleeing in droves. Botht he original maintainer and the maintainer that started the lawsuits ended up publicly saying it was a disaster.
So I think the whole GPL enforcement issue is absolutely something that should be discussed, but it should be discussed with the working title.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:00PM
Everybody hates the insane crazy people, but everybody loves taking their work and making it their own. Google took Linux and changed the name to Android, to make absolutely sure nobody associates Android with Linux, because Linux has that insane crazy stink. You can trust your Google, they're not the insane crazies at all. Google just monetizes the crazy.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:30PM
It is only confusing because you are not distinguishing between the user-land and the kernel.
Common distros are now Android/Linux, SystemD/Linux, GNU/Linux and Busybox/Linux.
All have their strengths and weaknesses.