French Court Finds Violation Of GPL… Despite No Involvement Of Copyright Holder – 1610th Edition
Guerby alerts us to the news that a French Appeals Court found that education tech company Edu4 violated the GPL by distributing a version of VNC without offering up the source code (and removing the GPL copyright notice). As the announcement notes, one interesting factor here was that it was filed by Edu4’s customer, an education group, not the copyright holder. While it’s nice to see a legal win for open source software, this does raise some questions. My guess is that the rationale is that this isn’t a copyright case, but a licensing case. Thus the education group, AFPA, can actually be a party to the lawsuit. Still, it does raise questions over who has the right to make sure the GPL is enforced.
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