“The defence in the Jin vs. Ichessu case, in which the GNU
General Public License (GPL) is being tested in Israeli court, has
filed a detailed defence, which moves the lawsuit from the
fast-track short proceedings option into a regular court, where
arguments are longer and possible settlements are unlimited. More
importantly for the free and open source software community, the
case now seems to hinge either on interpretations of the GPL or
whether the GPL is valid under Israeli copyright law.“As we reported previously, Alexander Maryanovsky, the plaintiff
in the case, first filed against Alexander Rabinovitch and IChessU
in 2006…”