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Re: [News] GPL Wins in German Court

  • Subject: Re: [News] GPL Wins in German Court
  • From: Peter KÃhlmann <peter.koehlmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:58:01 +0200
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: SMP
  • References: <5224312.kq2NjOJQMn@schestowitz.com> <n7kft3-9en.ln1@ellandroad.demon.co.uk> <1109cqec23lgj.dlg@funkenbusch.com>
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Erik Funkenbusch wrote:

> On Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:44:07 +0100, Mark Kent wrote:
> 
>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> German GPL defender claims legal victory
>>> 
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| Open-source programmer Harald Welte said Thursday he won a civil court
>>>| case in Germany centered on the General Public License (GPL). The
>>>| license governs many open-source projects and permits anyone to use
>>>| software covered by it, but requires that companies incorporating GPL
>>>| software make the underlying source code available.
>>> `----
>>> 
>>>
http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6113453.html?part=rss&tag=6113453&subj=news
>> 
>> Of course, I'm sure that Erik will be back, claiming that it's never
>> been upheld in a court :-)
> 
> Oh, and, this is essentially tacit admission that I was correct
> previously, and everyone else was full of shit when they insisted the GPL
> had been tested in court.

Erik, This is *not* the first time the GPL has been tested in a german court
(not to mention there were other countries also, just not the US), and you
have been told several times already
After each time you repeated your "not tested in court" mantra
The only one full of it is you
-- 
Hardware, n.:
        The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.


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