Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] ClearSight/GPL update (fwd)

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From: "Olivier Biot" <ethereal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 19:14:08 +0200
From: Motonori Shindo

| Interesting precedent around netfilter/iptables:
|
|     http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-04-15-sitecom-gpl.html

There is much discussion about the implications of an open-source
license and its interpretation in Europe, which significantly differs
from the US interpretation. It looks like the European interpretation
is much more compulsive. However I need some input from an European
attorney on this as some say that in Europe a GPL license may require
the software producer to offer correctly functional software and the
limited disclaimer can in some times be nulled.

See for example the Dutch issue of Telecom Magazine -- sorry, I don't
have it at hand anymore and I'm not going to translate the article...
for now :)
(http://www.telecommagazine.nl/)

Regards,

Olivier