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Authored by: DieterWasDriving on Monday, September 17 2012 @ 01:56 PM EDT |
I don't think it's that easy for the customers. The GPL just doesn't apply.
The customers received code that Twin Peaks sold. Twin Peaks ignored the
licenses and had no rights to distribute that code. Twin Peaks must pay for the
rights to use that code, perhaps with damages. If there is not a fixed
commercial licensing rate(and it probably isn't in this case) it becomes more
complicated with an arbitrator-specified royalty or customer refunds being
possible remedies.
Note that the GPL doesn't feature in the description above. The is a copyright
violation, commercial "piracy". Twin Peaks didn't distribute the
software under a license i.e. the GPL, and violate one of the terms. They just
misappropriated it as their own, doing double damage by competing with the
rightful owners.
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