LinuxWorld Australia: Copyright and Linux, GPL Patent Issues: Part 1

“You see it sprinkled liberally in mailing lists and forum
discussions: IANAL. ‘I am not a lawyer.’ Of course, legal analysis
often follows–sometimes well informed, but often wildly incorrect
or outdated. Debates about GPL enforceability are no different.
Copyright law, though, has evolved to shrink the gray areas
significantly.

“The open source community’s commercial and non-commercial
members have debated the intellectual property issues surrounding
the GPL and Linux for years, and even more now as the release of
GPLv3 approaches…”

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