Indeed, almost no license violation cases make it to court. In the 20 years since the GPL was created, it has gone to court only a handful of times, yet there have been hundreds (maybe thousands) of license violations which have been settled out of court.
A court case benefits neither side. It's expensive to bring litigation and expensive to defend against it. This is why you hear of so few cases coming out the SFLC, because a vast majority of them are settled out of court, often with non-disclosure as a part of the settlement. This is by design. The goal here is no need to use the court system. Writing a letter should be enough. - Serge _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
