[$] A GPL-enforcement suit against VMware

When Karen Sandler, the executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, spokerecently at the Linux Foundation's CollaborationSummit, she spent some time on the Linux Compliance Project, an effortto improve compliance with the Linux kernel's licensing rules. Thisproject, launched with some fanfare in 2012,has been relatively quiet ever since. Karen neglected to mention that thissituation was about to change; that had to wait for theannouncement on March 5 of the filing of a lawsuit against VMware alleging copyright infringement for its use of kernel code.

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