Alleged Israeli GPL violation settled out of court

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 28, 2008 10:55 AM EDT
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After two years of litigation, the parties involved in an Israeli law suit that centered on the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL) have settled out of court. The result leaves the legal status of the GPL in Israel unresolved. As reported earlier on Linux.com, the case began in early 2006 when Alexander Rabinovitch, CEO of International Chess University (IchessU) approached Alexander Maryanovsky, the developer of Jin, a Java-based chess client, about writing a chess client and server for IchessU. When Maryanovsky declined, IchessU produced its own software, which Maryanovsky described as "95% my code and 5% theirs."

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The ambivalence on GPL is somewhat interesting vainrveenr 2 1,357 Oct 29, 2008 6:10 PM

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