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Re: The GPL (and Linux?) in court

  • Subject: Re: The GPL (and Linux?) in court
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 11:40:39 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / ISBE, Manchester University / ITS / Netscape / MCC
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__/ [ B Gruff ] on Saturday 23 September 2006 11:23 \__

> On Saturday 23 September 2006 11:21 B Gruff wrote:
> 
>> Not a clue what it all really means.
>> 
>> Is it a bit like the Duke of Wellington's "full report of the Peninsular
>> Campaign", which in total read "We won"? (Black Adder)
>> 
>> http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-judgement_frankfurt.html
> 
> OOPS - sorry - ignore that - just found post and follow ups on it!

FWIW, here's some related background.

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

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