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Right but they also didn't have rights to distribute the work. There will be issues of demonstrating damages, but you can't just say "Oh sure I violated your co
by emacsen 12y ago
Right but they also didn't have rights to distribute the work. There will be issues of demonstrating damages, but you can't just say "Oh sure I violated your copyright... but now that you take me to court, I'll stop." and expect to get off without paying anything.
- rdtsc 12y agoWell that's why I said they'll probably be forced to pay a fine or damages. They could for example look at number of licenses VMWare sold with the GPL code in it, then take a fraction of the profits from each or something like that. Stopping will probably just be another outcome unless they can come with some kind of agreement, like a separate commercial relicensed version of the GPL (but with multiple contributors that becomes a nightmare)