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the purposes of pursuing this specific legal action in Germany.
Conservancy is funding this legal action specifically as part of
Conservancy's program activity in
its <a href="/linux-compliance/about.html">GPL Compliance
Project for Linux Developers</a>.</dd>
<dt>Is this the Great Test Case of Combined / Derivative Works?</dt>
<dt id="combined-and-derivative-works">Is this the Great Test Case of Combined / Derivative Works?</dt>
<dd>This case is specifically regarding a combined work that VMware
allegedly created by combining their own code (“vmkernel”) with
portions of Linux's code, which was licensed only under GPLv2. As such,
this, to our knowledge, marks the first time an enforcement case is
exclusively focused on this type of legal question relating to GPL.
However, there are so many different ways to make combined and/or
derivative works that are covered by GPL that no single case could possibly
include all such issues. </dd>
<dt>Why must you file a lawsuit? Isn't there any other way to convince
<dt id="why-lawsuit">Why must you file a lawsuit? Isn't there any other way to convince
VMware to comply with GPL?</dt>
<dd><p>Neither Conservancy nor Christoph takes this action lightly nor without
exhausting every other possible alternative first. This lawsuit is the
outgrowth of years of effort to convince VMware to comply with GPL.</p>