> Suing for damages on the basis of a breach of copyright law clearly does not require any contract.
I came here to say basically this. To make this really explicit - this result is completely and utterly unsurprising and does not set any new meaningful precedent. Nothing specific to the GPL was implicated.
Using someone else's source code without permission has always been, and continues to be a violation of copyright law.
I came here to say basically this. To make this really explicit - this result is completely and utterly unsurprising and does not set any new meaningful precedent. Nothing specific to the GPL was implicated.
Using someone else's source code without permission has always been, and continues to be a violation of copyright law.