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Why haven't corporations bribed their way through copyleft (licenses) yet? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I thought companies could bribe through the legal system, so why not licenses?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Legal questions would have to be answered on a per-country basis, since different high courts can make different rulings.

I'm not sure people 'bribe their way through' a legal system by simply paying money, then wandering off with a good ruling. Vague laws might be swayed, but having public courts mean people can't just aske for a murder charge to be dropped.

I don't know of any unambiguous GPL violation which has been left alone. Trump's social media (truth-social or something) was found to have violataed the GPL, so they'll have to release that code.