> In practice, you usually need to demonstrate that you were harmed by an action to bring it to court. I think this is true for copyright infringement damages.

> In practice, you usually need to demonstrate that you were harmed by an action to bring it to court. I think this is true for copyright infringement damages. But is a GPL violation a copyright or a contract issue? And unlike copyright, the fix isn't damages to compensate the rightsholder, but to uphold the license. > So we would need the author of a GPL'd repository to sue, with proof that copilot copied and pasted their code. What happens if multiple authors wait and see, and then jointly sue? At that point, removing a single repo isn't enough.