Court rejects AVM's claims opposing third party modifications of GPL software

The gpl-violations.org web site has the news that the court ruled against AVM in its bid to restrict Cybits (and anyone else) from modifying the GPL-covered code in home routers. "Although the written reasoning of the decision is not available yet, it is clear that the court rejected AVM's claims according to which no third party shall be permitted to alter their products' firmware, even if the GNU GPL components are concerned. Thus, Cybits or anyone else may perform such modifications. Furthermore, under the judgement, Cybits is not prohibited from distributing its software that assists users in making and installing modifications to GNU GPL licensed software (Linux kernel used in the Fritz!Box device)." LWN recently covered a talk about the case.

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