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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 02:46:32AM +0100, peter green wrote:
> > Secoyndly, if anyone were mad enough to try to enforce GPL through 
> > litigation, the most they could hope to win are damages.
> I'm not sure what the situation is in the UK but in many countries there 
> are rather high "statutory damages" availible in copyright infringement 
> cases regardless of what the actual damages are. There are also 
> injunctions to consider.

Simply not being allowed to keep using infringed upon GPL'd code has
been quite enough to get a lot of violators to choose to comply with the
GPL by releasing the own they have based on that code in it's own right.
It's an easy solution really and saves a lot of work at the price of
releasing something that you can't use anyway.

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