[I'm not subscribed to -legal] Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 02:22:58AM +0200, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > Currently those concerns are vented by people who aren't authors > > of kernel stuff. > > Indeed: it's by people who are concerned about violating the licensing > terms of those who are.
Exactly. An unrelated third party, whose stance doesn't matter for the issue. > > >From what I gathered, the vast majority of kernel developers sees > > it as not-a-problem, and none is interested in suing his fellow > > developers. (Doing so may well result in the removal of that > > developer's contributions, as that would minimize the amount of > > damage.) > > That might be of little consolation to the people being sued for copyright > infringement. The only one who can sue is a copyright holder, and he'll first have to sue the offender successfully over the alleged GPL violation. The potentially affected people don't seem to be overly concerned about that prospect. Thiemo
