[Sheflug] Gnu Public License to be tested in court for first time

["Chris J" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know how many people here read The Register, but for those that don't
you may find this interesting:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/24219.html

"MySQL AB, the originator of the MySQL GPL database, is taking Progress
Software Corporation, the corporate parent of NuSphere to court because it
continues to distribute a database product that links statically to MySQL's
code.

"The product was originally released without the accompanying source code.
The Free Software Foundation's chief legal counsel, Eben Moglen, is set to
provide expert testimony in a hearing Wednesday at 2 p.m. in what is the
first court test for Richard Stallman's GNU General Public License."

Full story at the URL above.

Chris...

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