On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Simon Cooke wrote: > > Hey, Sim Coupe was distributed under the GPL license. If Si doesn't > > want to surrender the modified source then he is breaking the law, and > > many people within the GPL sphere are perfectly happy to help fight if > > this is the case. > > > > Interestingly, the GPL has never been proven in court.
There have been several out of court disputes, some against companies with expensive lawyers (e.g. NeXT). The offending company has backed down in every instance. And even if it was found to be invalid, it would not allow people to steal GPLed source code and make proprietary versions. -- Robert.
