Steve, IANAL, but in that case, it appears the plantiff got precisely what they asked of the German court.
Running under a dual-licensed model, I could ask for punitive damages from lost royalties as well. (Also described at http://www.gpl-violations.org/ -- the applicant in the Fortinet action.) Perhaps we will get a chance yet to test your legal theories in Ontario court. --brian On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, Steve Schefter wrote: > > For example, in the Fortinet case, the court imposed an injunction > "banning them from further distribution of their products until > they are in compliance with the GNU GPL conditions". Fortinet > today distributes products using GPL code. The difference is > that they started including a copy of the licence and making > source available. > -- Brian F. G. Bidulock ¦ The reasonable man adapts himself to the ¦ [email protected] ¦ world; the unreasonable one persists in ¦ http://www.openss7.org/ ¦ trying to adapt the world to himself. ¦ ¦ Therefore all progress depends on the ¦ ¦ unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw ¦ _______________________________________________ Linux-streams mailing list [email protected] http://www.openss7.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-streams
