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Doubts wane over GPL enforceability

Managing IP Correspondent
February 01, 2007

The GPL has become the most common open source licence since its release in 1989. But only recently has a body of case law begun to develop on whether it is enforceable. James Gatto argues that cases in the US and Germany suggest that it is

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