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Open…: Why the GPL Doesn’t Need a Test Case

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Glyn Mody
Mar 24, 2006

“There was an amusing story in Groklaw yesterday, detailing the
sorry end of utterly pointless legal action taken against the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) on the grounds that

FSF has conspired with International Business Machines
Corporation, Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc. and other individuals to
‘pool and cross license their copyrighted intellectual property in
a predatory price fixing scheme
…'”


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Glyn Mody

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