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Developments in Open Source Law in 2021 in Germany: Higher Regional Court decides on copyleft clause

17/01/2022

German courts made new rulings on Open Source licenses in 2021, such as the decision by the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court dealing with the effect of the copyleft clause of the GPL-2.0. According to the Court, an infringement of the copyleft clause leads to the...

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Authors

Portrait ofPhilippe Heinzke
Philippe Heinzke, LL.M.
Partner
Duesseldorf
Portrait ofAntonia Stoffers
Antonia Stoffers
Senior Associate
Duesseldorf