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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by Blackthorn on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:08PM (#9328833)
You can sue for anything you damn well please, that doesn't mean you're going to get anywhere.

I'm not a lawyer and can't explain why things are the way they are. I can only inform you that this is the way things have shaked out in the past.

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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by icebraining on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:19PM (#9328903)
Then can you point out specific cases when that has happened? Because frankly, it doesn't make sense to me, nor is it my recollection, that a copyright infringement suit can only be won if every single holder is part of the accusation.
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Re:I will not sign the CLA for less than $100, payable in Bi... by pgaddict on Monday April 06, 2015 @12:33PM (#9328996)
You're right - you only need an author whose contributions were (supposedly) infringed. Of course, if you have more of them, covering larger amounts of code, that might help.

A prime example is the SFC vs. VMWare lawsuit, where SFC represents a single contributor to Linux Kernel (Christoph Hellwig).

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/

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