If you want a comprehensive answer, you probably would want to do define what "the west" is. I'll go with "Europe and the USA" in my answer. No. "The West" is

If you want a comprehensive answer, you probably would want to do define what "the west" is. I'll go with "Europe and the USA" in my answer. No. "The West" is the worlds largest economic region. Any company not complying to the conditions of the GPL is toying with being excluded from western markets and that's a huge risk to profits. Mostly companies get away with it because nobody notices. But as soon as a GLP violation is detected, many legal (and extra-legal) paths are open to discourage the culprit.