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Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?


From: Alexander Terekhov
Subject: Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:29:23 +0200

Hyman Rosen wrote:
[...]
> <http://www.jbb.de/urteil_lg_frankfurt_gpl.pdf>
> <http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Skype-caves-in-to-GPL-requirements/0,339028227,339288830,00.htm>
> <http://www.jbb.de/judgment_dc_munich_gpl.pdf>

Appellate Judge Hoeren (Court of Appeal of Dusseldorf, Copyright
Senate): 

<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/feedback/OIIFB_GPL3_20040903.pdf>

About more recent Welte/jbb's "GPL under German law" stunt (against
Skype):

Jörg Wimmers and Detlef Klett, Computer und Recht 2008, p. 59.

<http://www.taylorwessing.com/uploads/tx_siruplawyermanagement/Wimmers_Klett_CR.de.pdf>

"Die vielfach beschworene Wirksamkeit der GPL nach deutschem Recht wird
auch durch dieses neuerliche instanzgerichtliche Urteil nicht belegt.
Zahlreiche Punkte bleiben unklar; viele für die Praxis sehr wichtige
Punkte sind durch sämtliche bisherigen Entscheidungen nicht einmal im
Ansatz berührt worden."

regards,
alexander.

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