From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [OT] German court says the GPL is effective
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:24:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040723212423.GQ19329@fs.tum.de> (raw)
I know this is off-topic, but a court in my home town Munich has decided
that a cease and desist letter Harald Welte sent to a router producer
(Sitecom) who used netfilter/iptables in his router but didn't publish
the sources of the firmware with a penalty of up to 100 000 Euro is
valid (a German version of the decision of the three judges is at [1]).
It's quite nice to hear that a court has decided that the GPL is
enforceable under German law.
cu
Adrian
[1] http://www.jbb.de/urteil_lg_muenchen_gpl.pdf
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next reply other threads:[~2004-07-23 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 21:24 Adrian Bunk [this message]
2004-07-23 22:00 ` [OT] German court says the GPL is effective Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-23 22:28 ` Matthias Andree
2004-07-29 12:11 ` Adrian Bunk
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