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FOSS license compliance in the consumer electronics market
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| Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) license compliance is
| a contentious topic. There are different perspectives
| about when and how license terms apply, about which
| licenses can be used together, and about how potential
| issues should be resolved. The consumer electronics market
| is an area where FOSS license compliance is particularly
| problematic. This is primarily attributable to economic
| reasons rather than dishonesty, but in a market worth more
| than $335 Billion in 2008, it is an issue worth exploring.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/352366/
Recent:
French court hands GPL victory
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| It's the reason why Microsoft's Steve Ballmer calls
| Linux viral. But French courts obviously think it has
| merit because the GNU General Public Licence has been
| upheld in a court of appeals in France.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28000/1090/
Big GPL copyright enforcement win in Paris Court of Appeals
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| An education organization in France has successfully
| sued a software vendor for failing to comply with the
| open source General Public License. The ruling is
| significant because it demonstrates that software
| recipients, and not just developers, can launch GPL
| enforcement cases in France.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/09/big-gpl-copyright-enforcement-win-in-paris-court-of-appeals.ars
Big Win for GNU GPL in France
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| One of the fallback positions for purveyors of FUD is that
| the GNU GPL may not be valid, because it hasn't been
| properly tested in court. That's getting increasingly
| implausible as a stance. After being upheld in Germany a
| few times, here's a big decision in its favour in France:
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| In a landmark ruling that will set legal precedent, the
| Paris Court of Appeals decided last week that the company
| Edu4 violated the terms of the GNU General Public License
| (GPL) when it distributed binary copies of the remote
| desktop access software VNC but denied users access to its
| corresponding source code. The suit was filed by
| Association pour la formation professionnelle des adultes
| (AFPA), a French education organization.
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| The events of the case go back to early 2000, when Edu4
| was hired to provide new computer equipment in AFPA's
| classrooms. Shortly thereafter, AFPA discovered that VNC
| was distributed with this equipment. Despite repeated
| requests, with mediation from the Free Software Foundation
| France, Edu4 refused to provide AFPA with the source code
| to this version of VNC. Furthermore, FSF France later
| discovered that Edu4 had removed copyright and license
| notices in the software. All of these activities violate
| the terms of the GNU GPL. AFPA filed suit in 2002 to
| protect its rights and obtain the source code.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-win-for-gnu-gpl-in-france.html
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