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GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the never-fun-to-break-new-legal-ground dept.

MadFarmAnimalz writes "In what appears to be the first court test for the GPL in the Middle East, Alexander Maryanovsky, the author of the GPL licensed Jin Chess Client is taking IchessU to court for violations of the GPL license."

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  1. gpl is dogshit to be wiped off your arse by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    anyone using gpl code needs to have a lobotomy. this communist infest sesspool that call themselves the free software foundation needs migrate back to cuba.

  2. Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Well, we can thank him for setting open source back yet again. If any company was scared to adopt GPL'ed applications before, this'll really scare them off.

    Does the GPL really have to be an infectious virus that transmits it's license to anything that comes near it?