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What ? There have been plenty of GPL cases defended in court.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_license_litigati...



All of the copyright cases were settled, so no precedence is set. Open source as a contract has been ruled legal, and licensors can sue for breach of contract - which is not the same as copyright infringement.

I think my point still stands.




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