spinynorman Posted April 21, 2004 Report Share Posted April 21, 2004 The Register reports that a German court has granted an injunction for an infringement of general public licence (GPL) software. Lawyers acting for the netfilter/iptables project said that to the best of their knowledge, this is the first case in which a judge has ruled on the validity of the GNU GPL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 That's over in Europe. The USA is another matter entirely, which will be decided in federal court. Maybe even to the supreme court. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 That's over in Europe. The USA is another matter entirely, which will be decided in federal court. Maybe even to the supreme court. Well, Europe has around 700,000,000 people, so it's a good step forward. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sitor Posted April 25, 2004 Report Share Posted April 25, 2004 Well if the US supreme court judges against the validity of the GPL, then only the US will need to keep paying loads of money for software. Not too good for the US economy. The better for the rest of the world. In any case if the German ruling counts as a precedent, Open Source cannot juridically be beaten world-wide, only in some local areas. This will make politicians and judges watch out: which one would want to condemn his country to IT middle ages while the rest of the world continues with progress. Ciao, Sitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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