Welte: More GPL enforcement work again.. and a very surreal but important case

Unfortunately its not unheard of for both government and the private sector to get the idea exactly backwards in bizarre ways. Here is a case from an unnamed Eastern European country.

Company A produces warehousing software and freely distributes a open source version with some advanced features cut. Even boasting that the program is open source and GPL licensed.

A competing company B produces software with an initial startup option in the spirit of "Import from 'Company A'"

A files a complaint with the CPC (Commission on protection of competition) against B, claiming various violations including infringement on their copyright on the database structure of the db behind their product.

CPC fines B.

I don't really want to go more into it so I've spared the names.