LWN.net Logo  Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?  Has Bionic
stepped over the GPL line?  Posted Mar 21, 2011 5:33 UTC (Mon)
by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048) In reply to: Has Bionic
stepped over the GPL line? by corbet Parent article: Has Bionic
stepped over the GPL line?  Since it only takes one out of
thousands of contributors to cause a problem (provided that he
has standing, but he could find a jurisdiction that suits him
for that purpose), it isn't reassuring for the ecosystem that
there may be thousands of other contributors who don't care.
Those thousands of other contributors could all tell the court
that they're fine with this, and the court would still have to
decide one contributor's complaint on the basis of its merits.
This is again the question I already mentioned in my reply to
@bkuhn above: what degree of legal certainty is reasonably
required when we're talking about a platform on which an entire
ecosystem is built? (as opposed to a device driver affecting
only a single vendor, or a compo