Lawyers get more than they pay for with open source software licensed under the GNU Public License. Dr. Katharina Scheja, partner at Frankfurt, Germany-based Heymann & Partners, explains how courts are enforcing the GPL requirement to include source code with object code distributions.
November 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com Corporate
Once again, a German court has ruled on the GNU (programs of all-free software) General Public License (“GPL”) and confirmed its enforceability in Germany. The judgment was handed down on July 24 (Landgericht München I, decision of 24 July 2007 — 7 O 5245/07 — not final); still, it is noteworthy that the GPL provisions so far have received positive evaluation by German courts.
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