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Germany
| Name | LG Mannheim, Vergleich v. 27.12.2021, Az. 7 O 2/21 |
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| Parties | Ayuso, Welte, Kedlecsik v. McHardy |
| Subject | Comparison with GPL enforcement |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 |
| Name | OLG Karlsruhe, Urteil v. 13.11.2020, Az. 6 U 60/20 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Wordpress Theme: viral effect of the GPL-2.0 copyleft clause or simple licence infringement |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | OLG Hamburg, Urteil v. 28.02.2019, Az. 5 U 146/16 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Right to claim of authors of GPL-licensed software |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Hamburg, Urteil v. 20.11.2017; Az. 308 O 343/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Contractual penalty for GPL infringement, internal equalisation of co-authors, cease-and-desist |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | OLG Hamm, Urteil v. 13.06.2017, Az. 4 U 72/16 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Liability and damages in cases of a GPL infringement |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Köln, Urteil v. 20.10.2017, Az. 14 O 188/17 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Injunction in the case of a GPL infringement (not final, settled on appeal) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Hamburg, Urteil v. 08.07.2016, Az. 310 O 89/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Right to claim of authors of GPL-licensed software |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Bochum, Urteil v., Az. I-8 O 294/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Liability and damages in cases of a GPL infringement |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Halle, Urteil v. 27.07.2015, Az. 4 O 133/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Risk of re-infringement after the conditions of the GPLv3 have been complied with (Section 8-3 GPL-3.0) (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Hannover, Urteil v. 21.07.2015, Az. 18 O 159/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Injunctive relief for GPL infringement and inadequate declaration to cease and desist |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Leipzig, Beschluss v. 02.06.2015, Az. 05 O 1531/15 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Cease and desist order due to GPL infringement |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | OLG Köln, Urteil v. 31.10.2014, Az. 6 U 60/14 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | non-commercial use under CC-BY-NC 2.0 (unported); damage compensation in cases of non-commercial use (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Köln, Urteil v. 17.7.2014, Az. 14 O 463/13 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | GPL source code transferred to LGPL; infringer gain |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Köln, Urteil v. 05.03.2014, Az. 28 O 232/13 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | non-commercial use under CC-BY-NC 2.0 (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Hamburg, Urteil v. 14.06.2013, Az. 308 O 10/13 |
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| Parties | Welte v. Fantec GmbH |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Berlin, Urteil v. 08.11.2011, Az. 16 O 255/10 |
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| Parties | AVM v. Cybits |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Bochum, Teilurteil v. 10.02.2011, Az. I-8 O 293/09 |
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| Parties | adhoc dataservice GmbH v. Buhl Data Service GmbH |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Hamburg, Urteil v. 10.12.2010, Az. 406 O 50/10 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Subscription trap |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Berlin, Beschluss v. 08.10.2010, Az. 16 O 458/10 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Creative Commons-Licence „Attribution – ShareAlike 3.0 Unported“ |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 |
| Name | LG München I, Urteil v. 12.07.2007, Az. 7 O 5245/07 |
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| Parties | Welte v. Skype Technologies S.A. |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG Frankfurt a.M., Urteil v. 06.09.2006, Az. 2-6 O 224/06 |
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| Parties | Welte v. D-Link Deutschland GmbH |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 |
| Name | LG Berlin, Beschluss v. 21.02.2006, Az. 16 O 134/06 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | WLAN-Router |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | LG München I, Urteil v. 19.05.2004, Az. 21 O 6123/04 |
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| Parties | Welte v. Sitecom Deutschland GmbH |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 |
| Name | OLG Köln, Urteil v. 30.9.2016, Az. 6 U 18/16 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Open LIMS (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | OLG Düsseldorf, Urteil v. 24.04.2012, Az. 1-20 U 176/11 |
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| Parties | satco europe GmbH v. Dream Property GmbH |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | OLG Düsseldorf, Urteil v. 28.09.2010, Az. I-20 U 41/09 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | xt: commerce |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | BPatG, Beschluss v. 17.12.2009, Az. 25 W (pat) 65/08 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | „Linuxwerkstatt“ (§ 8 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 MarkenG) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
| Name | BPatG, Beschluss v. 30.09.2008, Az. 33 W (pat) 1/07 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | “Open Source Broker” |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇩🇪 |
USA
| Name | US District Court, N.D. California, 2023-10-25, Case No. 5:18-cv-07182-EJD |
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| Parties | Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC |
| Subject | Confirmation that when licencing under the AGPL-3.0 with its ‘Commons Clause’, the ‘Commons Clause’ may not be removed and the software may be designated as open source software. Violation of the Lanham Act if proprietary software is referred to as “free and open source” |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2022-02-18, Case No. 21-16029 |
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| Parties | Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC |
| Subject | Confirmation (preliminary procedure) that when licencing under the AGPL-3.0 with its ‘Commons Clause’, the ‘Commons Clause’ may not be removed and the software may be designated as open source software. (Commentary at Software Freedom Conservancy) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, N.D. California, 2021-05-18, Case No. 5:18-cv-07182-EJD |
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| Parties | Neo4j, Inc. v. PureThink, LLC |
| Subject | Confirmation (preliminary procedure) that when licencing under the AGPL-3.0 with its ‘Commons Clause’, the ‘Commons Clause’ may not be removed and the software may be designated as open source software. |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, N.D. California, 2020-11-13, Case No. 5:19-cv-06226-EJD |
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| Parties | Neo4j, Inc. v. Graph Found., Inc. |
| Subject | Confirmation (preliminary procedure) that when licencing under the AGPL-3.0 with its ‘Commons Clause’, the ‘Commons Clause’ may not be removed. |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, E.D. New York, 2017-02-24, Case No. 16-CV-1462 (DRH)(ARL) |
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| Parties | Great Minds v. Fedex Office and Print Services Inc. |
| Subject | Copies by commercial providers on behalf of a non-commercial licensee as non-commercial use within the terminology of Creative Commons 4.0-BY-NC-SA international (Commentary at Creative Commons) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, N.D. California, San Francisco Division, Case No. 17-cv-04002-LB |
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| Parties | Open Source Security, Inc. & BRADLEY SPENGLER v. Bruce Perens |
| Subject | Dismissal of a defamation action due to a discussion about the interpretation of the GPL (specifically the scope of the ‘further restrictions’ prohibition) in a blog post |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, N.D. California, 2014-05-16, Case No. 5:13-cv-05161-PSG |
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| Parties | XimpleWare v. Versata et al |
| Subject | (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court, W.D. Texas, 2014-03-11, Case No. A-14-CA-12-SS |
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| Parties | Versata v. Ameriprise |
| Subject | (Commentary at ifrOSS) |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | N.D.Tex. 2009-01-16, Case No. 3:2007cv01767 |
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| Parties | Chang et al v. Virgin Mobile USA LLC et al |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, 2008-08-13, Case No. 2008-1001. |
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| Parties | Jacobsen v. Katzer |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 2006-11-09, Case No. 06-2454. |
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| Parties | Wallace v. IBM |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | US District Court Southern District of Indiana, vom 2005-11-28, Case No. 05-618. |
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| Parties | Wallace v. FSF |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
France
| Name | Cour d’appel de Paris, 2024-02-14, Case No. 2/18071 |
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| Parties | Entr’ouvert v. Orange |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 🇨🇳 |
| Name | Cour de Cassation, 2022-10-05, Case No. 21/15.386 |
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| Parties | Entr’ouvert v. Orange |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | TGI de Paris, 2019-06-21 |
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| Parties | Entr’ouvert v. Orange |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 |
| Name | Cour d’appel de Paris, 2021-03-19 |
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| Parties | Entr’ouvert v. Orange |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 |
| Name | Cour d’Appel de Paris, 2009-09-16, Case No. 04/24298 |
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| Parties | AFPA v. EDU 4 |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 |
| Name | TGI de Paris, 2007-03-28, Case No. 05/16916 |
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| Parties | S.A. Educaffix v. CNRS |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 |
China
| Name | Supreme People’s Court of the People’s Republic of China, 2023-10-312, Case No. (2021) No. 51 |
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| Parties | Wangjing vs. Yibang, et al |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
| Name | Wenshu Court, 2021-03-30, Case No. Yue 03 Min Chu No. 3928 |
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| Parties | Jining Luohe Network Technology Co., Ltd. v. Fujian Fengling Chuangjing Technology Co., Ltd et al |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
Italy
| Name | Tribunale di Venezia, Urteil v. 13.12.2021 |
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| Parties | Ovation s.r.l. v. Nerds Farm s.r.l. |
| Subject | Copyright |
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Links | 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 |
Spain
| Name | Audiencia Provincial de Madrid, Sección 28, 2007-07-05, Case No. 150/2007 |
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| Parties | Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) v. Buena Vistilla club social |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇪🇸 |
| Name | Audiencia Provincial de Alicante, Sección 8, 2007-04-02, Case No. 111/2007 |
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| Parties | Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) v. Bowling Sur S.A. |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇪🇸 |
| Name | Juzgado de Primera Instancia nº 6 de Badajoz, 2006-02-17, Case No. 15/2006 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | Disco Bar Metropol |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 |
| Name | Juzgado de lo Mercantil nº 5 de Madrid, 2006-02-02, Case No. 12/2006 |
|---|---|
| Parties | Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE) v. Asociacion cultural ladinamo |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇪🇸 |
Israel
| Name | District Court of Jerusalem, 2011-01-06, Case No. CA 3560/09, CA 3561/09 |
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| Parties | - |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇬🇧 |
Netherlands
| Name | Rechtbank Amsterdam, 2006-03-09, Case No. 334492 / KG 06-176 SR |
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| Parties | Curry v. Audax |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇳🇱 🇬🇧 |
Belgium
| Name | Tribunal de première instance de Nivelles, 2010-10-26, Case No. 09-1684-A |
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| Parties | Allard et al v. Festival de Theatre de Spa |
| Subject | - |
| Licence | - |
| Links | 🇫🇷 |