[Gufsc] Sitecom Germany GmbH processada por violar GPL

[Rafael R Obelheiro]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 07:39:45PM -0300, Ricardo Grutzmacher wrote:
> Fonte: http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-04-15-sitecom-gpl.html
> 
> netfilter project was granted a preliminary injunction against Sitecom GmbH
> 
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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> 
> Of interest to editors and journalists covering:
> Linux, Free Software, Open Source, Copyright Law
> 
> MUNICH COURT GRANTS PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION FOR INFRINGING USE OF GPL
> LICENSED SOFTWARE
> 
> BERLIN, Germany - Apr. 14, 2004 -- The Munich district court granted
> a preliminary injuction against Sitecom Germany GmbH 
> (http://www.sitecom.com/).
> This injunctive relieve has been applied by the netfilter/iptables project
> (http://www.netfilter.org/).
> 
> Sitecom is offering a wireless access router product (WL-122) based on
> software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), developed
> by the netfilter/iptables project.
> 
> The GNU GPL is a license commonly used for many free software projects,
> such as the Linux Operating System Kernel.  The GPL licenses software
> free of cost, but requires any redistributor to provide the full source
> code.
> 
> According to the court order, Sitecom did not fulfill the obligations
> imposed by the GNU General Public License covering the
> netfilter/iptables software. In particular, Sitecom did not make any
> source code offering or include the GPL license terms with their
> products.

Recuperando uma discussao anterior aqui na lista, esse e' o tipo de
situacao que seria evitada caso a Sitecom tivesse baseado o seu
produto em software com licenca (tipo) BSD, ja' que esta nao exige a
disponibilizacao dos fontes.

Antes que eu seja mal interpretado, acho que o pessoal do netfilter
esta' certissimo em exigir o respeito `a licenca do seu software, e
nao vejo nada de errado em alguem vender produtos baseados em codigo
GPL (desde que respeite a licenca).

Um abraco,
--rro