In the argument of the SF conservancy, the contract is between a distributor of the software and someone receiving the software. If a company only writes the GP

In the argument of the SF conservancy, the contract is between a distributor of the software and someone receiving the software. If a company only writes the GPL software in question, they wouldn't be liable to their customers in the same way as in this article because they aren't on the receiving end of any code. If a company uses and redistributes GPL code someone else wrote, they could be sued by their customers to enforce the GPL, but SF conservancy argues that's a good thing. IANAL