Comment by abigail95

I'm sorry you didn't get a response yet. I'm not a lawyer and have no legal training but it seems to boil down to this:

It's part of the debate of whether (1) GPL is a contract, (2) GPL can be enforced by non-parties, (3) How Fair Use applies, (4) Methods to bully/shame companies to give up source code ...? (5) Who the actual parties involved are if the actual rights holder (Linux Kernel) tries to sue someone. (First Sale doctrine might apply).