[Leaplist] GPL upheld in court

[Ray Brunkow]

http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2006/11/open_source_wit.html

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an opinion 
in which Judge Easterbrook declares, "[t]he GPL and open-source have 
nothing to fear from the antitrust laws." The case is called /Wallace v. 
IBM/., No. 06-2454. [Download a copy of the opinion 
<http://www.internetcases.com/library/cases/2006-11-09_wallace_v_ibm.pdf>.] 
Internet Cases covered the lower court's decision from last December 
here <http://www.internetcases.com/archives/2005/12/court_dismisses.html>.

Plaintiff Wallace filed an antitrust suit against IBM, Red Hat and 
Novell, arguing that those companies had conspired to eliminate 
competition in the operating system market by making Linux available at 
an "unbeatable" price (free) under the General Public License ("GPL"). 
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana dismissed 
the case, finding the plaintiff had suffered no antitrust injury. The 
Seventh Circuit affirmed.
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