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Monday, October 25, 2004

Open Source License Enforcement

The GPL has been interpreted by the Federal District Court in Illinois. It has been interpreted, but not held valid, because the court assumed that the GPL was valid for its analysis. This is a copy of the case.

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At 4:31 PM, tk said...: Paul, please check the links for this article. They don't work!
At 4:39 PM, Paul Arne said...: Will do. Thanks, tk.
At 11:59 AM, Anonymous said...: Some interesting "interpretations" - "Bison is open source code, meaning that it is distributed by the FSF at no cost," then goes on to refer to it as "freeware" and "public domain."

"Defendants claim that plaintiff's are violating the GPL by attempting to claim a copyright in a program that contains Bison's source code"

... What they actually did was use Bison to generate code; Bison's license explicitly states that generated code is not automatically GPL'd.

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Monday, October 25, 2004

Open Source License Enforcement

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