There seems to be some sort of feeling that GPL enforcement is "unjust", "harsh" and should be limited to the most severe of cases where it benefits some perver

There seems to be some sort of feeling that GPL enforcement is "unjust", "harsh" and should be limited to the most severe of cases where it benefits some perverted vision of "license purity" and particular "pursuit of justice" or "bigger than the pieces combined" purpose. It's almost turned into a meme to call the GPL a "restrictive cancer" and push MIT so VC funded startups can appropriate technology and give back nothing, so big companies can just use the BusyBox-clone and shut us out of all sorts of devices. To hell with it. If McHardy wants to aggressively enforce the GPL against violators, that is his mo. I have empathy with the single mother hit with a copyright C&D for music her kids downloaded, I have none with companies, designed for the single purpose of limiting liability.