Software Freedom Conservancy Funds GPL Suit Against VMWare
"Jeremy Allison - Sam writes with this excerpt from a news release from the Software Freedom Conservancy: Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware's ESXi products. Serge Wroclawski points out the SFC's technical FAQ about the suit. One nugget: This case is specifically regarding a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (“vmkernel”) with portions of Linux's code, which was licensed only under GPLv2. As such, this, to our knowledge, marks the first time an enforcement case is exclusively focused on this type of legal question relating to GPL" -- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/05/1721231 Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
It'll be really interesting to watch this being tested in the courts. Thanks Peter! Eric -------------------------------------------- Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Peter Reutemann <fracpete(a)waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
"Jeremy Allison - Sam writes with this excerpt from a news release from the Software Freedom Conservancy:
Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware's ESXi products.
Serge Wroclawski points out the SFC's technical FAQ about the suit. One nugget:
This case is specifically regarding a combined work that VMware allegedly created by combining their own code (“vmkernel”) with portions of Linux's code, which was licensed only under GPLv2. As such, this, to our knowledge, marks the first time an enforcement case is exclusively focused on this type of legal question relating to GPL"
-- source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/15/03/05/1721231
Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
It'll be really interesting to watch this being tested in the courts.
Harald Welte was quite active in pursuing GPL violations. Unfortunately, his website no longer seems to be available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl-violations.org Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:05:02 +1300, Eric Light wrote:
It'll be really interesting to watch this being tested in the courts.
The GPL has already successfully been through the courts in Germany <http://archive09.linux.com/articles/57353>.
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