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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @08:01PM
they have cut themselves off from the community, and can't get help
It was BusyBox, what kind of help would they need? They could always log onto Stack Overflow as an individual engineer w/o identifying their product.
If you apply a restrictive license to your product - and the GPL is restrictive - then you have to be prepared to enforce it, or else the license is meaningless. It's like posting a sign "Private parking only" and then not doing anything when random people park their cars there.