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Re:BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public... by iajrz on Thursday March 03, 2016 @10:52AM (#11217566)
evidence that they've modified, not afaict. But refusing to give up the GPL'd code, even if stock, is a violation. And there are no sizes to license violations.
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Re:BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public... by strictnein on Thursday March 03, 2016 @11:02AM (#11217661)
There's evidence where?

And I know there aren't in theory different types of violations, but I think we all understand that there are different types in practice.

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Re:BMW Australia Refusing to Comply with Terms of GNU Public... by EdHominem on Thursday March 03, 2016 @01:49PM (#11218970)
Not like you think. It's not like this is a a crime, but a small one, so a judge can say "Oh, then a small fine is warranted."

This is a license and if BMW doesn't comply 100% with the license their right to use the copyrighted code is entirely revoked.

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