[ox-en] [Fwd: FSF Lawyer and Board Member Serves as Expert Witness in Lawsuit Related to GNU GPL]
- From: Stefan Meretz <stefan.meretz hbv.org>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:53:17 +0100
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Betreff: FSF Lawyer and Board Member Serves as Expert Witness in Lawsuit
Related to GNU GPL
Datum: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:12:27 [PHONE NUMBER REMOVED]
Von: Frederic Couchet <fcouchet april.org>
An: discussion fsfeurope.org
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FSF Lawyer and Board Member Serves as Expert Witness in Lawsuit Related
to GNU GPL
Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Tuesday, February, 26, 2002 - Eben
Moglen, General Counsel to the Free Software Foundation (FSF), will
testify as an expert witness in the Progress Software Corporation vs.
MySQL AB case currently pending in United States District Court in
Massachusetts. The current focus of this case is a preliminary
injunction sought by MySQL AB concerning a violation of the GNU
General Public License (GPL) by Progress Software Corp.
Progress lost the right to distibute MySQL due to a violation of the
GNU GPL. Progress distributed a proprietary software component,
Gemini, that combined with the GPL'ed MySQL database system. Gemini
was linked statically with the MySQL system to form a single binary
program. Many times, the FSF has enforced the GNU GPL in such
situations, when our copyrights were at stake. We do such enforcement
in a confidential setting without the need of court action. Since
Progress distributes no FSF-copyrighted code, the FSF is not a party
in the case; however, the FSF takes a strong position that Progress is
indeed in violation of the GNU GPL.
Moglen said: "In our minds, Progress Software Corp. has committed a
garden-variety violation of the GNU GPL. We expect to prevail as we
assist MySQL AB in their enforcement action. We are quite surprised
that Progress has brought the action this far."
The preliminary injunction hearing will take place at 2:00 PM on
Wednesday, February, 27, 2002 at the Federal Court House in Boston,
Massachusetts in the court of Judge Patti B. Saris.
Moglen's full affidavit in this case is available at
http://www.fsf.org/press/mysql-affidavit.html. Moglen's full essay
about enforcing the GNU GPL is available at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/enforcing-gpl.html.
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About Eben Moglen:
Eben Moglen holds a PhD. in history and a J.D. from Yale University.
Moglen is currently a professor of law and legal history at Columbia
University Law School, and serves as general counsel for the Free
Software Foundation.
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About Free Software Foundation:
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to
promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and
redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and
use of free (as in freedom) software---particularly the GNU operating
system and its GNU/Linux variants---and free documentation for free
software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and
political issues of freedom in the use of software. Their web site,
located at http://www.gnu.org, is an important source of information
about GNU/Linux. They are headquartered in Boston, MA, USA.
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Updated: $Date: 2002/02/26 20:21:57 $ $Author: bkuhn $
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