On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 02:22:08PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote: > 3. People took the code of (2), and adapted that code - extensively and > explicitly - to make use of and rely upon the facilities of the code > of (1); facilities which were missing in the code of (2). > > The people involved in (3) - Linux Foundation, Cumulus Networks, 6WIND, Big > Switch Networks, etc. - refuse to acknowledge the legal reality that the > code of (3) is covered by the GPL licence of the code of (2), and refuse to > honour the conditions required by the GPL - see David Lamparter's mail.
Well, that's more complicated than I've thought. Under my point of view, those companies are right, sorry to say that.