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French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)
submitted 8 months ago by flumph@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How historic is this? Has there been other copyright awards based on infringement of the GPL before?

[โ€“] tabular@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've only ever heard of corrections for GPL violation from a settlements (which is usually the goal of a group like the Software Freedom Conservancy who focuses on fixing violations).