On 06/12/2015 07:29 PM, Jeff Haran wrote: > What is the downside to a large company for violating GPL? They are likely to > not get sued in the first place. If they are they can delay using court > procedures until they've changed their code to not violate or GPL'ed it. > Worst for them is paying legal fees and a contribution. I am guessing those > aren't huge, not for a big company. Seems like unless there is some monetary > sting like a piece of the proceeds on the sale of violating products, there > is no deterrence and you guys will be in court for the rest of time chasing a > never ending stream of new violators.
Creating a new kernel for one's product is not as easy as it sounds. Even replacing the kernel with a BSD kernel, and then replacing the userland code, and possibly writing a bunch of new device drivers, is very much non-trivial. Replacing Linux with something else in a product could easily cost several millions of dollars. -- All rights reversed. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
