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FANTEC guilty of GPL infringement in Germany

[Posted June 26, 2013 by corbet]

The Free Software Foundation Europe announces that Harald Welte has won a GPL infringement case against FANTEC in Germany. "The court decided that FANTEC acted negligently: they would have had to ensure to distribute the software under the conditions of the GPLv2. The court made explicit that it is insufficient for FANTEC to rely on the assurance of license compliance of their suppliers. FANTEC itself is required to ascertain that no rights of third parties are violated."
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Harald does it again! Great!

Posted Jun 26, 2013 16:09 UTC (Wed) by bkuhn (subscriber, #58642) [Link]

Congratulations to Harald for yet again upholding the GPL in Germany. I'm particularly grateful because he's resolved as part of this a a long-known GPL violation on BusyBox that Conservancy wasn't able to handle in our USA lawsuit since Fantec didn't sell much in the USA (at the time of Conservancy's 2009 lawsuit).

FANTEC guilty of GPL infringement in Germany

Posted Jun 26, 2013 23:11 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

The decision of the court in Hamburg (not Berlin, Bradley ;-) ) can be found here:

http://www.ifross.org/publikation/lg-hamburg-az-308-o-1013


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