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Now I'm curious. Who or what company was hit by the GPL "death penalty"?


Last year Stockfish attempted to enforce the GPLv3 version of the clause against ChessBase. I'm not sure how it has turned out so far.

https://stockfishchess.org/blog/2021/our-lawsuit-against-che...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27896386


The slides I attached are from a talk which mentioned one example. I remember seeing some version of this talk at some FOSDEM, likely https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/samba/




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