GPL upheld in France

"It is also interesting that the suit was brought by a group which does not hold copyrights in the software in question."

I consider this a good thing and it would be good if this idea were to be generally applicable to copyleft Free Software no matter the country.

I mean, I get the idea that the person holding the copyrights is generally the one with standing, but in the case of licenses like the GPL, a party could be denying me something that I have the right to and that they are legally obligated to give me. I should be able to something about that. Especially if they got consideration from be for the binary but now want to deny me the rest of what they are obligated to give me and that I am due.

Are there any downsides to this that are not obvious. (Or obvious ones I am overlooking?)

all the best,

drew
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