IfrOSS
Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, abbreviated to ifrOSS, (English: Institute for legal issues regarding free and open source software) is a German organisation that provides legal services for free software.
ifrOSS co-founder Till Jaeger was the legal representation in the first court case to lead to a court ruling on the enforceability of the GNU General Public License (the primary licence for free software projects). The German court ruled that the GNU GPL was indeed enforceable.[1]
The main people involved in ifrOSS are Till Jaeger, Axel Metzger, Olaf Koglin, Julia Küng, Till Kreutzer.[2]
External links
- ifrOSS homepage
- Die GPL kommentiert und erklaert, a book "The GPL commented and explained"
References
- ↑ "GPL prevails in German court".
District Court in Frankfurt-on-the-Main has for the first time confirmed the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
- ↑ "ifross.org - Personen".
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