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GPL Gets Its Day in Court in Israel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 4, 2006 @11:23PM 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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GPL==RIAA by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-04 23:36 · Score: 0, Funny

This proves the GPL is no different than the RIAA.

MOD ME DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!
1. Re:GPL==RIAA by tehcyder · 2006-09-05 00:18 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  This proves the GPL is no different than the RIAA.
  MOD ME DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!
  No, this proves the RIAA is no different than the GNAA.
  MOD ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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  To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Re:In a way, this is very lucky timing for GPLv3 by russ1337 · 2006-09-05 00:07 · Score: 4, Funny

We ocasionally need management to understand it.... (it should be written in colours and cartoon pictures of small animals..)
Re:In a way, this is very lucky timing for GPLv3 by Haeleth · 2006-09-05 00:41 · Score: 3, Funny

I vote C/C++.

Oh, great, as if our current laws weren't bad enough, now we get to have them written in an unsaf
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