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

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Thu Jul 29 2004 - 07:15:09 EST


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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