>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.
The court case appears to be about a vendor not wanting to distribute source and being sued. My cursory reading suggests that the judge found that 3rd parties have no recourse in forcing the source code out. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
