Re: Potential LSR licensing violations

[David Kastrup]

Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> writes:

> On 20/10/2022 11:34, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
>> The LSR distributes a piece of GPLed code under GPL-incompatible
>> terms, which is illegal, period. I don't think I am imagining
>> a problem here. Being an LSR-editor now, I don't like having
>> my responsibility involved in copyright infringement.
>
> And as the linux kernel found out, David is wrong saying that only the
> copyright holder can take enforcement action.
>
> German law allows people to take enforcement action without the
> copyright holder's knowledge or consent. And somebody took active
> advantage of that.

Come again?  Particularly in Germany, the bulk of Linux kernel
enforcement actions have been taken by Harald Welte on behalf of his
ipfilter/netfilter code in particular.

What other examples do you have in mind?

-- 
David Kastrup