Z:gnu-www-ja-enforcing-gpl--4d4f5d-So what happens when the GPL i/en

So what happens when the GPL is violated? With software for which the Free Software Foundation holds the copyright (either because we wrote the programs in the first place, or because free software authors have assigned us the copyright, in order to take advantage of our expertise in protecting their software's freedom), the first step is a report, usually received by email to &lt;license-violation@gnu.org&gt;. We ask the reporters of violations to help us establish necessary facts, and then we conduct whatever further investigation is required.