Re: What about an OS monopoly under GNU license?

[Paul Crowley <paul@hedonism.demon.co.uk>]

Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> writes:
> The party with standing to sue would be an author of some piece of code that
> was released under the GPL and then used in a commercial product. But no one 
> has ever sued, to the best of my knowledge! This is most likely because of 
> the great difficulty inherent in proving that GPLed code was incorporated 
> into a commercial product.

In practice differences in implementations give themselves away fairly
easily.  For example, if it turns out that my implementation of the
Flate compression algorithm contains all the same bugs as an old
version of gzip, you would probably have good grounds to take me to
court and demand to see my source code.

I don't think I've ever heard of a case where anyone was even
suspected of stealing GPL source for a commercial product and keeping
quiet, so I think your suggestion that it is being violated is
groundless.
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