Subject: Re: bug#50446: Emacs FAQ entry "What is the real legal meaning of the GNU copyleft?" still relevant?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 19:26:33 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:23:38 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked], Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
> 
> Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Take a look at this list, for example "Welte vs D-Link (2006)":
> >
> > https://wiki.fsfe.org/Migrated/GPL Enforcement Cases
> >
> > IANAL, YMMV, etc. but some of these look like court cases to me?
> 
> Yeah, outside the US there's been cases (a French court recently had a
> case where they basically said that the GPL couldn't be used the way we
> want it to be), but I assumed that this section was about the US...
> since the FSF is a US company.

I suggest to wait for Richard to chime in, we none of us are lawyers
here.