Who has the rights to claim GPL copyright infringement of linux ??

[Thomas Charron]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 4:12 AM, Craig Whitmore<lennon at orcon.net.nz> wrote:
> A question is who has the rights to claim copyright infrigement of
> someone using a device which uses a bit of hardware which runs the linux
> kernel which doesn't follow the GPL rules?
> As the linux kernel includes input/code from 10000's of people can
> anyone one of them take someone else to court for copyright infrigement
> (as the hardware manufactuer using the linux kernel didn't follow the
> GPL Copyright Licence?)

  IANAL, and it's kind of hazy, however..  Anyone could argue that if
they have 1 line of code running on the box, their being infringed
upon if they are not complying with the GPL.  However, the example of
the kernel itself is murky because there's a whole lotta derived work
going on in there.

  This is why the FSF recommends that you grant them the code, so THEY
can do it.

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-- Thomas