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<h1>The time has come to stand up for the GPL.</h1>
<p><em>Earlier this month, Conservancy <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">announced Christoph Hellwig's
<p><em>Last month, Conservancy <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">announced Christoph Hellwig's
lawsuit against VMware in Germany</a>. Help us meet our anonymous match to
support Conservancy's and Christoph's efforts in this area
by <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">becoming a Conservancy
supporter</a> or <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">donate link on the right</a>.</em></p>
<p>We were told to ask nicely and repeatedly, so we did.</p>
<p>We asked allies to help us make contact in friendly and professional
ways.</p>
<p>Everyone asked us to give companies as many chances as possible and as
much help as possible to comply with copyleft, so we did.</p>
<p>We've worked for years to help VMware comply with the GPL, but they
refuse. Negotiations broke down for the last time when they insisted on an
NDA just to discuss settlement terms!</p>
<p>Christoph is among the most active developers of Linux. As of Feburary
19, 2015, Christoph has contributed 279,653 lines of code to the Linux kernel,
and ranks 20th among the 1,340 developers involved in the latest 3.19 kernel
release. Christoph also
ranks 4th among those who have reviewed third-party source code, tirelessly
corrected and commented on other developers' contributions. Christoph