[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL enforcement actions

[Luck, Tony]

> I'll bet the average core developer wants to hack on the kernel, and
> share in the work that everyone else is doing.  But I'll also bet the
> conversation would be dominated by extremes, spiral down into
> my-company-won't-let-me-say-xxyyzz, and then finally settle into
> comparisons of US law with everyone else.

A sizable fraction of commits come from people whose day job is
to work on Linux. All my contributions to the Linux kernel are owned
by my employer.  Do companies with large aggregated contributions
get a say in the GPL enforcement direction?

I'm certainly not speaking for my employer here - but you might think
that a company that makes a huge percentage of its profits from selling
silicon chips would want the minimum possible barriers to people buying
those chips to run s/w. That may, or may not, align with the opinions of
people working for the company.

-Tony