IfrOSS
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Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, abbreviated to ifrOSS, (English: Institute for legal issues regarding free and open source software) is a German organisation that provides legal services for free software.
ifrOSS co-founder Till Jaeger was the legal representation in the first court case to lead to a court ruling on the enforceability of the GNU General Public License (the primary licence for free software projects). The German court ruled that the GNU GPL was indeed enforceable.[1]
The main people involved in ifrOSS are Till Jaeger, Axel Metzger, Olaf Koglin, Julia Küng, Till Kreutzer.[2]
[edit] External links
- ifrOSS homepage
- Die GPL kommentiert und erklaert, a book "The GPL commented and explained"
[edit] References
- ^ "GPL prevails in German court". http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/78002. "District Court in Frankfurt-on-the-Main has for the first time confirmed the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL)"
- ^ "ifross.org - Personen". http://www.ifross.org/personen.
