Alan Coopersmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > A German court did claim two times (although not asked) that GPL §2
> > is most likely void.
> >
> > http://www.jbb.de/urteil_lg_frankfurt_gpl.pdf
> >
> > As the underlying law (European Copyright) is valid for more people than US
> > copyright law, this seems to be an important information.
>
> If the GPL was to be ruled null and void, it would be important information
> and very bad news for OpenSolaris, which would then have a whole lot of GPL
> code with no permission to distribute it. Ignoring all arguments about
> whether GPL or CDDL is better, we need both for OpenSolaris to thrive right
> now.
I don't like to start a GPL vs. CDDL discussion here.
Harald Welte won a process that has been run on GPL §4.
The substantiation on the judgement did make it clear, that the judge
explicitlely
excluded GPL §2 for the judgement.
Jörg
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