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Originally Posted by supermighty
I get it; there are things that hold up in a court of law, and there are things that hold up in the court of opinion.
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Court of law is a relative term. Which court? Even the gnu webpage is not really clear about it:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
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Note that the GPL, and other copyleft licenses, are copyright licenses. This means that only the copyright holders are empowered to act against violations.
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Which makes it almost sound like that the GPL is enforceable under copyright law rather than contract law.