GPL lawsuit in Germany

Joerg Schilling schilling at fokus.gmd.de
Fri Jan 25 15:09:52 UTC 2002


>From nickm at cream.org Fri Jan 25 01:58:19 2002

>On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:47:38AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>> 
>> Of course, there are two aspects of the case. One is the civil acspect of the 
>> case and another is the crimnal aspect. Going only the way of sueing for the
>> criminal aspect will take many years while starting with the civil case before
>> will help to get a fast start.
>> 
>> The main problem seems that my lawyer does not see a way to enforce the other 
>> person to publish the modifications.
>> 

>Well, might I suggest your ditching your evidently inadequate and
>timorous lawyer and getting someone who has a clue about copyright and
>free software? FFS, it's a fairly simple case, and you're allowing him
>to be bamboozled over it. Stop it.

from the talk I had yesterday, I am sure that he is very competent.

Jörg

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