From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] German court says the GPL is effective
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:11:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729121105.GO2349@fs.tum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040723222825.GA21989@merlin.emma.line.org>
On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 12:28:25AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > [1] http://www.jbb.de/urteil_lg_muenchen_gpl.pdf
>
> Has this verdict become final yet?
No, it's not yet final.
> Matthias Andree
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Adrian
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-23 21:24 [OT] German court says the GPL is effective Adrian Bunk
2004-07-23 22:00 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-07-23 22:28 ` Matthias Andree
2004-07-29 12:11 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
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