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<h1>Frequently Asked Questions about Christoph Hellwig's VMware Lawsuit</h1>
<p>Conservancy maintains this
<acronym title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</acronym> list regarding
<abbr title="Frequently Asked Questions">FAQ</abbr> list regarding
<a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware
in Germany over alleged GPL violations on Linux</a> as a service to the
Free Software community, and in particular, the copyleft community. Conservancy
realizes this lawsuit generates many questions and interest
from the community. Legal counsel (both Conservancy's own, and
Christoph's lawyer, Till Jaeger) correctly advise us to limit our public
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findings, Christoph began his own investigation and confirmed
Conservancy's compliance conclusions. Christoph then began his own
enforcement effort with legal representation from Till Jaeger. Christoph has
been unable to achieve compliance, either, through his negotiations in
2014. VMware's last offer was a proposal for a settlement agreement that VMware would
only provide if Christoph signed an NDA, and Christoph chose (quite
reasonably) not to sign an NDA merely to look at settlement offer.</p>
reasonably) not to sign an NDA merely to look at the settlement offer.</p>
<p>Thus, this lawsuit comes after years of negotiations by Conservancy to
achieve compliance — negotiations that ended in an outright refusal by
VMware's lawyers to comply. Those events were then followed by a year of
work by Christoph and Till to achieve compliance in a separate action.</p>