Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don’t. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?
Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.
Once you blast the lawsuit into the press your software gets better known. FFmpeg was fairly well known before it got hijacked and stuffed in every set-top video decoder box on the planet, but now it has that reputation as well.
Only if you can afford better lawyers than they can.
If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.
Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don’t. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?
Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.
Once you blast the lawsuit into the press your software gets better known. FFmpeg was fairly well known before it got hijacked and stuffed in every set-top video decoder box on the planet, but now it has that reputation as well.