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Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
(blog.tidelift.com)
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this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2024
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I now want to become a kernel contributor just so that it would be possible for me to use the copyright excuse too
If I understand correctly, this applies to users, not just contributors. As a user of the software you are entitled to a copy of the source code.
Exactly. What are contributors? If not, also users?