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Re:Report from the VMware GPL court hearing by delsarto on Friday February 26, 2016 @09:08AM (#11181395)
Glibc is a bad example, as they have explict linkage exceptions

There seems to be some thought that vmware are idiots and copied a bunch of Linux code and didn't release it. It's more about when something becomes a derivative work. Much more subtle

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Re:Report from the VMware GPL court hearing by djsumdog on Friday February 26, 2016 @01:14PM (#11182933)
The implications of this are pretty broad reaching. I think it'd be amazing if, at the end of this, the VMWare kernels all becoming opensource.
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Re:Report from the VMware GPL court hearing by icebraining on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:38PM (#11184830)
That'll never happen, one can't force someone else to abide by one's license, only force them to stop using one's work and pay damages.
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