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German Court: Linking a GPL-2.0 licensed Library triggers Copyleft [1]

12.03.2026

By Dr. Till Jaeger [3]

The Berlin District Court II prohibited the distribution of a security scanner in preliminary injunction proceedings, ruling [4] that it violated GPL-2.0 [5], AGPL-3.0 [6], and ODbL-1.0 [7]. Read More... [1]

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[1] https://ifross.org/?q=en/node/1678 [2] https://ifross.org/?q=en/user/login&destination=comment/reply/1678%23comment-form [3] mailto:till.jaeger@ifross.de [4] https://www.greenbone.net/wp-content/uploads/LG_Berlin_II_15-O-299-25-eV_engl_translation.pdf [5] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0-standalone.html [6] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0-standalone.html [7] https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/