Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:24:23 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | [OT] German court says the GPL is effective |
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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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