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Emacs FAQ entry "What is the real legal meaning of the GNU copyleft?" still relevant?

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Message #14 received at 50446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 50446 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#50446: Emacs FAQ entry "What is the real legal meaning of
 the GNU copyleft?" still relevant?
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2021 18:23:38 +0200

Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> 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.

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