On 06/11/2015 07:26 PM, Ruben Safir wrote:

Not at all.  You have a good point there are definitely legal situations
other than relicensing which are problematic.

Lets say Apple decides that are going to take the Linux Kernel and
alter it extensively, in order for it to work with a new hardware platform 
that they created. And lets say don't return the code base to the public.  
Now who is going to protect the license and sue them?  You have literaly 
thousands of partiticpants who have standing now in this case.

That means a thousand possible plaintiffs.

s/Apple/VMware/ and you get this:

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

A number of GPL enforcement projects involving the Linux kernel
have resulted in GPL compliance already.

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