Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

Am I misled in thinking that if this weren't mere IP trolling with no legal or even factual basis, SFC would've already thought to sue the biggest fish, i.e. Amazon, as they aren't publishing full Linux kernel sources as used in Kindles inside the "source releases", most notably the REAGL part of the EPDC driver…

Discussion (201 points, 12 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46166994

>The tentative ruling is not a final decision

Well, this being the US, I guess the Judge is looking for more "tips".

https://natlawreview.com/article/it-tip-or-bribe-supreme-cou...

This doesn't make sense. If Vizo never licensed the software to you under the GPL, you can't say they violated the GPL. The court should not be able to make up contracts that don't exist between parties.