Re: [OT] German court says the GPL is effective

From: Adrian Bunk (bunk_at_fs.tum.de)
Date: 07/29/04

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    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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