I read the same argument about GPLv2 in like 1994. To date, there remains no case law I'm aware of where a copyright holder "lost" anything by "accidentally" shipping GPL software. How many decades does it take for us to put this myth to rest?
I read the same argument about GPLv2 in like 1994. To date, there remains no case law I'm aware of where a copyright holder "lost" anything by "accidentally" shipping GPL software. How many decades does it take for us to put this myth to rest?
Anyway, with v2, the concerns were more vague - you'd have to accidentally link something GPLv2. With v3, even just shipping the binary signed with a private key on a platform that requires said key to load it, is enough to potentially force disclosure of that key (and that is by design of GPLv3 - it wants to kill the TiVo model).
The big players in the industry did just that, and there appears to be a remarkable consensus on it.
Again, it's just stunning the extent to which this FUD hasn't changed at all over a quarter century.
That point is silly. If what you say were true, then the purchase would have been poison. It's not true. It's FUD. And it's hilariously the same FUD that people were flinging around in years before most of the existing FUD-flingers were even born.
Which is exactly what the GPL is! Especially v3.
About termination, what you mention is kind of stopping further violation of the terms and maybe compensation for the past violations. What I wanted to mention (but wasn't at all clear about) is that after termination, you cannot even distribute if you intend to abide by the terms unless you are forgiven by the copyright holder. (In the case of the GPL version 3 there is some grace period during which for the first violation, if you abide within that period, you are explicitly permitted to resume distribution under the license terms.)