[14-10-2006] The GPL was recently upheld by a German court.
There was an important victory for users of the open source GPL licence last month, when a German court upheld the 'fundamental validity' of the licence and told network equipment manufacturer D-link that the licence was legally binding. D-Link had claimed that they didn't consider the licence, which requires them to publish source code derived from code released under the licence, to be legally binding.
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