The GPL prevails: An analysis of the first-ever Court decision on the validity and effectivity of the GPL
After many years of mostly academic debate about the legal character of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as well as its validity and enforceability, a Munich District Court issued the first-ever judgement dealing with a number of topics in the centre of the discussion. This paper outlines the fa...
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University of Edinburgh
2004-12-01
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| Series: | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/issue4/GPL-case.asp |