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by kingosticks 2874 days ago
Chip, while it's great to hear you are working on this, I'm struggling with the idea of someone being ignorant to this. Or do you just not know where your software comes from?
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It's honestly very common people are unaware.

http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/11/08/gpl-enforcement.html

> I'd say that 98% of the violations I've ever worked on since 1998 have been unintentional and due primarily to negligence, not malice.

(author of the above statement led FSF's GPL enforcement for many years)

Fair enough. At least this one is being fixed!