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Comment by endisneigh | Hacker News Reader

People expecting OBS to get millions from this are naïve. Almost certainly TikTok will change the software to just use OBS independently to avoid the issue.

If OBS wants money they should use a dual license.

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Nobody says they want money. They likely just want the GPL violation to stop, one way or another.

Indeed, enforcement actions should always be about making the compliance happen and never prioritize financial gain.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...

The reasons people want high damages are to discourage future GPL violations as retribution for the high damages proprietary software companies often demand where their copyrights are violated.

And yet it could be argued that TikTok saved millions they'd otherwise have had to pay to produce or license equivalent software.

did anybody say OBS wanted millions?

> Almost certainly TikTok will change the software to just use OBS independently to avoid the issue.

this is a perfectly acceptable outcome.

>> People expecting OBS to get millions from this are naïve.

IANAL but copyright violation has already happened. Due to our insane lobbyists the penalties for that are something like $150K per copy. If/when some copyright holder wants to make an example and get rich instead of settling for compliance, they should be quite able to do so. I would love to see a big evil company smacked down like that.

>> If OBS wants money they should use a dual license.

That's just an opinion.

I imagine that OBS merely want others to abide by their license.

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