Intel to include DRM in new Pentium 4 series processors

[Adrian Midgley]

On Tuesday 10 September 2002 20:40, you wrote:


> Does anybody know the legal basis of the GPL in the UK and has it ever
> been tested in Court?

Not really, the latter.
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-13.html

There is a recent case that might have allwoed it in the USA, relating to=
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MySQL.

"Enforcing the GPL. The GNU General Public Licence has not been tested in=
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court not (as some spreaders of FUD may say) because there is any doubt a=
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its enforceability, but because there is no doubt. A case still in litiga=
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might have provided a test, but is being conducted on more restricted=20
arguemnts, at the judge's direction. News of it is therefore limited at=20
present."

As I say at http://www.defoam.net/open/

I also say there
"The Free Software Foundation in Europe (FSF-Europe) has various activiti=
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including accurate translation of the GPL and LGPL, linguistically and=20
legally, to Europe."  Which in reflection is rather more tortured than it=
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should be.
http://www.fsfeurope.org/



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