is anyone aware of any company, anywhere, ever suffering any repercussions for violating the GPL? The most I can see is the Busybox lawsuits, which resulted in meaninglessly-small penalty payments, and the FSF vs Cisco case, which also resulted in nothing that even slowed Cisco down.
I guess what I'm wondering is: what is the actual reason not to just ignore the GPL until you get caught, then pay paltry sums to various nerd bureaucracies and keep truckin'
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