Attorney: More disclosure will end GPL case

April 26, 2004, 9:53 PM — While many observers eyes are on the SCO-IBM struggle, an interesting legal battle over the GPL is going on in the Netherlands. An open source programmer who contributed code to the iptables utility is suing Sitecom for using that utility in its wireless networking products without adhering to the terms of the GPL. The Dutch court system granted him a preliminary injunction - perhaps the first time that a court has moved to enforce the GPL.

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