Tidelift co-founder and general counsel Luis Villa breaks down the recent judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit and how it could potentially strengthen the GPL
It does seem that way but there’s a tendency to oversimplify these topics. It’s probably best to just Wait And See™
There probably needs to be more precedent. If I knew a company was exploiting one of my FOSS projects, I certainly wouldn’t start a lawsuit. I’d complain about it on social media but I doubt I would even be able to do much else.
Did that just open the floodgates for any lawyer to sue anyone not complying with an opensource licence
It does seem that way but there’s a tendency to oversimplify these topics. It’s probably best to just Wait And See™
There probably needs to be more precedent. If I knew a company was exploiting one of my FOSS projects, I certainly wouldn’t start a lawsuit. I’d complain about it on social media but I doubt I would even be able to do much else.