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JaKe writes:

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.

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1. "JaKe" - https://soylentnews.org/~JaKe/
2. "he speaks his mind, bluntly." - https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003580.html
3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=15671

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