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Michigan Diagnostic Software Case Big Win for GPL

Posted by timothy on from the nicely-done dept.

Pig Hogger writes "Many people claim that the validity of the GNU Public License has not been tested in court in the US. Well, it just had been, in Michigan, in a case that validated open-source car diagnostic software against the pretension of automakers who want to keep it secret. But don't take my word for it; read the story on GROKLAW." It's actually the Society of Automotive Engineers involved here; DrewTech (the developers in this case) nicely donated half of their settlement money to the SAE.

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  1. GNU Public License? by BlueWonder · · Score: 0, Troll

    What's the "GNU Public License"? After extensive web searching, I cannot find any evidence that a license with such a name exists.