Re: Re: GPL/LGPL

Steve,

IANAL, but in that case, it appears the plantiff got precisely
what they asked of the German court.

Running under a dual-licensed model, I could ask for punitive
damages from lost royalties as well.  (Also described at
http://www.gpl-violations.org/ -- the applicant in the Fortinet
action.)
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Perhaps we will get a chance yet to test your legal theories
in Ontario court.

--brian

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006, Steve Schefter wrote:
>
> For example, in the Fortinet case, the court imposed an injunction
> "banning them from further distribution of their products until
> they are in compliance with the GNU GPL conditions".  Fortinet
> today distributes products using GPL code.  The difference is
> that they started including a copy of the licence and making
> source available.
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