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nickflood on Sept 15, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: French judge rules GPL license must be enforced vi...

So my interpretation is (IANAL) that the Entrouvert released some library under GPL, and then when a big company used this free library, they wanted some money out of them and tried to use copyright mechanism to circumvent GPL as a free software license. Judge said they can't do that.

So looks like it's a good case for GPL.

The title is very misleading and some commenters here seem to be interpreting it differently, so please correctly if I'm wrong.

user5994461 on Sept 15, 2020 [–]

1) Entrouvert released some work under GPL (a SAML authentication library).

2) Orange (big company) used the library in some of their proprietary software, software that was sold to the French administration.

It is a very good case for the GPL indeed.

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