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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 04 2016, @12:55PM
i think him and greg noah hartman(sp?) basically said that they would keep working with the degenerate scum until they convinced them over time that it was in their best interests overall to comply with the gpl. I can understand their point of view, as i'm not litigious either but if you're going to have a copyleft you have to enforce it in that system. I think it's a little insensitive of linus in regards to the FSC who are probably licking their wounds right now, even if they are lawyers they are gpl loving lawyers for the love of god.
Otherwise, we should just put a warning on the code that says if someone doesn't follow our license we'll send a team of highly religious assassins to their house to send a message to other scum like vmware. I have no sympathy for these dumb !@%#$ and would support such methods.. I guess they're feeling pretty smart right now, though. They're on the list with POS like stephen elop and his sponsoring company at the time.