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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
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German jury ratifies GPL
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:Description:
    As recently announcend in the reasons for a judgement from may the 19th
    this year, a German jury ratified the rights of the GPL (GNU Public
    License). In the specific instance the netfilter/iptables project sued
    Sitecom (a router producer) to us the software for their products, without
    keeping all aspects of the GPL. The result of this was the enforcement of
    an injunction which disallows the distribution of the routers under this
    circumstances in Germany.

As recently announcend in the `reasons for a judgement`__ from may the 19th
this year, a German jury ratified the rights of the `GPL`__ (GNU Public
License). In the specific instance the `netfilter/iptables`__ project sued
`Sitecom`__ (a router producer) to us the software for their products, without
keeping all aspects of the GPL. The result of this was the enforcement of an
`injunction`__ which disallows the distribution of the routers under this
circumstances in Germany.

.. __: http://www.jbb.de/html/?page=news&id=32
.. __: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
.. __: http://www.netfilter.org/
.. __: http://www.sitecom.com/
.. __: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/46551

The jury disagreed, that the GPL represents a complete set aside of copyrights
and affirmed the GPL in general. The described reason for judgement is a huge
world wide success for open source in general, stated the advocate of the
iptables project, since it is the first judgement which officially approves
the properties and enforceablity of the GPL.

In the meantime the router producer offers another new product using the
implied software. The projects advocate has applied for a penalty of 10000,-
€ at the jury for the violation of the injunction.

More detailed information (German) can be found on the `Heise newsticker`__.
Currently there is no news source in English language known.

.. __: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/49377


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