Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/15/enough.html

Unfortunately, Edward Naughton is at it again, and everyone keeps
emailing me about,
including Brian
Proffitt, who quoted my email response to him this morning in his
article.

As I said in my response to Brian,
I’ve written
before on this issue and I have nothing much more to add. Naughton
has not identified a GPL violation that actually occurred, at least with
respect to Google’s own distribution of Android, and he has completely
ignored my public call for him to make such a formal report to the
copyright holders of GPL violations for which he has evidence (if
any).

Jon
Corbet of LWN has also picked up the story, mostly pontificating
on what it would mean if loss of distribution rights under
GPLv2§4 are used nefariously instead of the honorable way it has
been hitherto used to defend software
freedom. I commented on the
LWN post.

I think Jon’s right to raise that specific concern, and that’s a good
reason for projects to upgrade to GPLv3. But, nevertheless, this whole
thing is not even relevant until someone actually documents a real GPL
violation that has occurred. As I previously mentioned,
I’m aware of
plenty of documented violations (thanks to Matthew Garrett), and I’d
love if more people were picking up and act on these violations to
enforce the GPL. I again tell Naughton: if you are seriously concerned
about enforcing GPL, then volunteer your time as a lawyer to help. But
we all know that’s not really what interests you: rather, your job is to
spread FUD.