LXer: What legal remedies exist for breach of GPL software?

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03-14-2018, 11:22 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 129,164 Rep:	LXer: What legal remedies exist for breach of GPL software? Published at LXer: Last April, a federal court in California handed down a decision in Artifex Software, Inc. v. Hancom, Inc., 2017 WL 1477373 (N.D. Cal. 2017), adding a new perspective to the forms of remedies available for breach of the General Public License (GPL). Sadly, this case reignited the decades-old license/contract debate due to some misinterpretations under which the court ruled the GPL to be a contract.read more Read More...

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