[wordup] GNU GPL Tested in Court

[Adam Shand]

This is good good news.  In fact it's a great way to start the day (an  
even better way to start teh week for those for whom it's still Monday  
:-).

Groklaw has the nitty gritty details, so if you're interested that's  
the place to check out.  I'll note that from my reading of Groklaw  
Slashdot is misleading, the judge didn't rule based on the GPL but  
rather forced the parties to go through discovery, which resulted in  
them reaching a settlement.

Adam.

From:  
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/05/03/21/1822239.shtml? 
tid=117&tid=123&tid=17
More: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225223848129

Michigan Diagnostic Software Case Big Win for GPL
Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, @01:40PM

Pig Hogger writes "Many people claim that the validity of the GNU  
Public License has not been tested in court in the US. Well, it just  
had been, in Michigan, in a case that validated open-source car  
diagnostic software against the pretension of automakers who want to  
keep it secret. But don't take my word for it; read the story on  
GROKLAW." It's actually the Society of Automotive Engineers involved  
here; DrewTech (the developers in this case) nicely donated half of  
their settlement money to the SAE