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GPL Hard to Enforce?

Posted by samzenpus on from the who-owns-it dept.

the-dark-kangaroo writes "The GPL may be difficult to enforce due to a lack of clarity over who owns the copyright to the software, according to a legal expert. Lucie Guibault, an assistant professor of intellectual-property law at the Institute for Information Law in Amsterdam, said at the Holland Open Software Conference in Amsterdam, that the GPL should clarify who is the author of the software to ensure that open source software distributed under this licence receives legal protection."

4 of 361 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Derivative Works? by Deekin_Scalesinger · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *points* Lawyer!

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  2. Re:Stupid stupid article by ScrewMaster · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Sure you can! Hell, Gates & Co. do it all the time. Witness SCO, and every "comparison between {insert non-Windows OS here} and Windows(tm)" ever subsidized by Microsoft. But yeah, this is pretty awful.

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  3. GPL Hard To Enforce by FusionDragon2099 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, water is wet, fire is hot, and MS is the devil.

  4. Re:Stupid stupid article by ic3p1ck · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    +5 Funny

    Arg where my mod points when I need them!!