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FC: Boston judge to hear first test of GNU license used in MySQL

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:53:51 -0500 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Boston judge to hear first test of GNU license used in MySQL Copies to: mikael@pawlo.com Send reply to: declan@well.com

[Mikael Pawlo is an associate at the Swedish law firm Advokatfirman Lindahl. --Declan]

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Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 23:41:29 +0100 To: declan@well.com From: Mikael Pawlo <mikael@pawlo.com> Subject: Politech - MySQL X-UIDL: f45cd97046d6261e1f69241a4286081c

Declan, Things are moving forward in the NuSphere ./. MySQL AB dispute. This is the first test in court of the enforceability of the GNU GPL license used by many free software developers.

The preliminary injunction hearing will take place at 2:00 PM on February 27,2002 at the Federal court house in Boston, Mass.

On June 15, NuSphere and Progress sued David Axmark personally, Michael "Monty" Widenius personally, MySQL AB, TcX DataKonsult AB, and John Doe Corporation for breach of contract, tortious interference with third party contracts and relationships and unfair competition.

On July 11, MySQL AB filed a suit for trademark infringement, breach of the interim agreement, breach of the GPL license and unfair and deceptive trade practices.

A lot of questions on this case are answered in this only slightly biased FAQ: http://www.mysql.org/news/article-75.html

FSF pressrelease on FSF Lawyer and Board Member Serves as Expert Witness in Lawsuit Related to GNU GPL: http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-02-26-MySQL.html

More on free software: http://www.gnu.org/

Best regards

Mikael Pawlo

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