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.
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.