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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: 4, Interesting) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Sunday September 04 2016, @01:12PM
I tried writing a piece of legislation once for model parliament,
It is so much like writing code that it is scary.
You need to use precise language to avoid unintended consequences. You often make references to other laws whit would be much like using a software library.
The scary part: the "compiler" is manual for the most part. most the people voting to pass a piece of legislation will not read it. (though my understanding is that a committee may go over it in detail).