Free software Germany GPL

Wed Jul 2 10:50:54 UTC 2003

On Slashdot it stated that in Germany GPL isn't legal. Is this true?
http://www.vsi.de/inhalte/aktuell/studie_final.pdf
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/07/02/0245228.shtml?tid=117&tid=99

And if so what legal work should be done to make it legal. If somebody 
knows if any resaerch has be done in Belgium I would welcome it and try 
to get a new law in act that make GPL very wel protected.

Onno