An enforcement clarification from the kernel community

The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory board, in response to concernsabout exploitative license enforcement around the kernel, has put togetherthis patch adding a document to the kerneldescribing its view of license enforcement. This document has been signedor acknowledged by a long list of kernel developers.In particular, it seeks toreduce the effect of the "GPLv2 death penalty" by stating that a violator'slicense to the software will be reinstated upon a timely return tocompliance. "We view legal action as a last resort, to be initiatedonly when other community efforts have failed to resolve the problem.Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feelwelcome to join us in our efforts on this project. Working together, we willbe stronger."

See thisblog post from Greg Kroah-Hartman for more information.