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Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement by dragonwriter on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:13AM (#12405873)
> If they are not violating the terms of the license, what would change?

Increased vigilance in enforcement of anything almost invariably means greater incidence of prosecuting non-violators, causing them to incur costs to establish that they are not in violation.

In the case of Linux, this increases the expected costs of using the kernel even in accord with the license.

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Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement by ashitlerferad on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:14AM (#12405887)
Conservancy are only interested in compliance, not in increasing costs:

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...

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Re:The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement by dragonwriter on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:22AM (#12405963)
What the Conservancy is "interested in" is a different thing than what interaction with them causes.

Enforcers often are (or claim to be) interested only in compliance. Their efforts to secure compliance where they believe compliance is lacking incur costs that would not otherwise exist, even where compliance already exists.

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