Re:Report from the VMware GPL court hearing
by dragonwriter on Friday February 26, 2016 @10:15AM
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If "GPL lawyers" think that, where are the enforcement actions? When lawyers say they believe things about the law but aren't, it -- as the SF conservancy itself pointed out in their statement on the Canonical ZFS issue -- often represents what their clients have an interest in people believing about the law more than anything else.
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Re:Report from the VMware GPL court hearing
by jordigh on Friday February 26, 2016 @12:22PM
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> If "GPL lawyers" think that, where are the enforcement actions?
Nobody has actually tried to legally challenge the GPL via a GPL wrapper, so there's nothing to enforce yet. It seems like there's widespread consensus that a GPL wrapper wouldn't work. Indeed, if it did work, it would make copyleft utterly pointless. Just write a simple wrapper around any GPL library you want and no more copyleft.
The situation with nvidia and VMWare is not about GPL wrappers.