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Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe, by Till Jaeger

By Pamela Jones et al.

Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe
~ by Till Jaeger

[Dr. iur., Partner at JBB Rechtsanwälte, Berlin; Co-founder of the Institute for Legal Questions on Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS); Representative of gpl-violations.org project in its enforcement activities. A PDF of this article is available here.]

Abstract

GPL enforcement is successful in Europe. In several court decisions and out of court settlements the license conditions of the GPL have been successfully enforced. In particular, embedded systems are the main focus of such compliance activities. The article describes the practice of enforcement activities and the legal prerequisites under the application of German law.

Full post as published by Groklaw on April 03, 2010 (boomark / email).