Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:11:05 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [OT] German court says the GPL is effective |
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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
cu Adrian
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