MySQL AB and Nusphere Go to Court Over GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday February 26, 2002 @07:56AM from the fate-of-the-Free-world-at-stake dept.

A little fairy whispered in our ear: "MySQL AB is seeking a temporary injunction against NuSphere, even though they've finally released the source code for Gemini and MySQL Advantage. According to the GPL, NuSphere lost the right to redistribute when they violated #3 by not providing the source code originally. The FSF will testify tomorrow in court, according to this Newsforge article." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN. We've done a couple of previous stories about the MySQL AB vs. Nusphere conflict: the original story, a follow-up, and a note about a countersuit. Update: 02/26 21:15 GMT by T : bkuhn (Bradley Kuhn of the Free Software Foundation) writes: "The FSF has a press release on the matter and affidavit that we filed is also available."

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Re:First legal test? by October_30th · 2002-02-26 08:23 · Score: 2, Funny

It impairs the unspoken but equally unalienable right to fair business.
Hence, given the pro big business mentality of the current administration, GPL will be thrown out of the court. Just watch it happen.

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In other gnews.. by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-26 08:25 · Score: 1, Funny

RMS has sued both parties for not calling the GNU derived application as GNU/MySQL.
"Free Software " declared RMS, "always starts with GNU".
Re:Hmm.. are they the same?? by Agthorr · 2002-02-26 08:42 · Score: 2, Funny

Yeah, I mean, I'd never even think of using a commercial .org site. Especially to read news.