one thing the article does not make clear is that there has been much enforcement by kernel hackers. but only in another jurisdiction (germany) by harald welte.

one thing the article does not make clear is that there has been much enforcement by kernel hackers. but only in another jurisdiction (germany) by harald welte. see http://www.gpl-violations.org/ http://www.gpl-violations.org/ for (sparse) details. the news is, that now the software freedom conservancy has some kernel and samba copyright holders, so it can enforce the gpl even when busybox is replaced for infringing devices.