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From: cas_news@strotmann.de (Carsten Strotmann (Usenet))
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Subject: Re: GPL
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:38:29 +0100
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Hi Mark,

Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> writes:

> Furthermore, who polices GPL? If I break the terms of GPL licence, who
> will come knocking at my door?

look at 
http://gpl-violations.org/

the GPL is enforced, and acknowledged in court multiple times now, both
in the US and in Europe.

There is a Google Tech Talk by Georg Greve "The Free Software Foundation
in Europe" that might be interesting to watch, it contains information
on how the GNU Licenses are enforced (at 50:30 in the video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcm6Nl_mkI

-- Carsten