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I'm asking this non-facetiously: Is there a wikipedia page or a written record of all the people/corps who've been taken to task in court over a GPL violation, or a large company such as IBM? If yes, was the penalty commensurate?

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This appears to be a decent though seemingly incomplete list with outcomes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigation

Thanks, this is just what I was looking for.

It is incomplete however. For example, there was a long-running lawsuit against VMware that was never resolved. [1] Was sort of an odd case and pretty much no one else in the industry wanted to go near it.

[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...

Thanks for the pointer actually.

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