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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 Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2022-02-18, Cas 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 |
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| 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 | 🇫🇷 |