From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268163AbUGWXCN (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:02:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268164AbUGWXCN (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:02:13 -0400 Received: from krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE ([129.217.163.1]:31621 "EHLO mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268163AbUGWXCL (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jul 2004 19:02:11 -0400 Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:28:25 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] German court says the GPL is effective Message-ID: <20040723222825.GA21989@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040723212423.GQ19329@fs.tum.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040723212423.GQ19329@fs.tum.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? -- Matthias Andree Encrypted mail welcome: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95 (PGP/MIME preferred)