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Article #72388legal history
From: John Lazzaro
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 17:55
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1992 17:55
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Has a GPL infringement case ever been brought to litigation? As someone who maintains too many lines of copylefted code, I worry that the inevitable case of a software company blatantly violating GPL and saying "sue us, we think the GPL won't stand up in court and we have more money than you for lawyers anyway" could result in GPL-protected code being thrown into the public domain ... for many authors, it would not be financially possible to mount a challenge. --john lazzaro
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