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by fabianhjr 1194 days ago
Neither do many US-based companies.

https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL%20Enforcement%20Cases

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Right, the difference is that there's an enforcement mechanism here.
That is expensive and approximately never gets used and so every tech company continues to infringe.
Also in China and in both cases cross-border / international enforcement is so expensive it is non-existent for open source/free software.