Last update: 13/03/2024
GPL-2.0 facing Court ruling in Paris
On February 24 2024, the Paris Court of Appeal rendered its (final?) decision in a dispute which since 2011 pitted the small open source company Entre’Ouvert (hereafter EO) against the giant Orange telecom company. This is the conclusion of a 13-year-old dispute, which duration can be explained by an attempt at mediation followed by multiple appeals (first instance, appeal, cassation, new ruling of the court of appeal).Orange had integrated the LASSO tool (software library distributed by EO under GPL-2.0) into its Identity Management Platform (“IDMP”) and had sold the solution to the French…
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