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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • April 27, 2004
    An article by Stephen Shankland:

    ``A German court has required a company to comply with the terms of the General Public License, giving some legal weight to the increasingly important document that governs Linux and innumerable other open-source programs.

    ``The case involves netfilter/iptables, open-source networking software for tasks such as firewalls for protecting a network from unwanted traffic. Harald Welte, one of the main netfilter authors, sued a Dutch company, Sitecom, alleging it used the software in a wireless network product without abiding by the terms of the General Public License (GPL).

    ``In April, a three-judge panel in a Munich court granted Welte's request for a preliminary injunction to stop distribution of the product without complying with the GPL. Specifically, the court forbade Sitecom's German subsidiary from distributing the netfilter software without attaching the GPL text and the netfilter source code free of royalties.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-7344-5198117.html

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