German court enforces GPL

Posted by dave on Apr 20, 2004 3:22 AM EDT
The Age; By Sam Varghese
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A court in Munich has issued a preliminary injunction against a hardware manufacturer, who is selling a wireless router, for violating the terms of the GNU General Public License. The injunction was sought by the netfilter/iptables project because the company, Sitecom, which is using its software did not meet the terms of the GPL: no source code was provided to those who bought the router and the manufacturer did not include the GPL license terms with its products.

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