Re: Significance of the GP licence.

[Hyman Rosen]

On 5/5/2010 8:11 AM, RJack wrote:
> Please provide links to those US federal judges who *do not* "believe
> the terms of the GPL can be ignored." I await with 'bated breath for
> your documentation.

Sure, here you are:
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13584730711160488510>
    PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION, et al., Plaintiffs,
    v.
    MYSQL AB, et al., Defendants.
    ORDER
    SARIS, District Judge.
    ...
    With respect to the General Public License ("GPL"), MYSQL has
    not demonstrated a substantial likelihood of success on the
    merits or irreparable harm. Affidavits submitted by the parties'
    experts raise a factual dispute concerning whether the Gemini
    program is a derivative or an independent and separate work
    under GPL ¶ 2. After hearing, MySQL seems to have the better
    argument here, but the matter is one of fair dispute. Moreover,
    I am not persuaded based on this record that the release of the
    Gemini source code in July 2001 didn't cure the breach.