On 9/26/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:26, krishnakant Mane wrote:
On 26/09/06, jtd jtd@mtnl.net.in wrote:
Dlink was one of the crooked companies that violated the gpl and was taken to court by Harold Welte. They lost the case. Their defence shows their crookedness and greed. Dlink contended that linux indulged in price fixing by keeping price at zero and hence was indulging in monopolistic behaviour. Therfore by magic Dlink was allowed to violate the terms of the GPL. The court said that irrespective of the allegation of price fixing, Dlink ceased to be a licencee of the gpl if it violtates any clause of the gpl.
who was indulged in price fixing? who is linux? was the company talking about the linux community? or linus him self?
The details are not clear as yet cause the original complaint and the judgement is in German.
this is an open appeal to all the community: if you know any cases where GPL is voilated, FSF India can take up the case, and if the case is in other countries we can ask our sister orgaanizations to take it up.
Nagarjuna