Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, abbreviated to ifrOSS, (English: ''Institute for legal issues regarding
free and
open source software
Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...
'') 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 GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a series of widely used free software licenses that guarantee end users the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the software. The license was the first copyleft for general ...
(the primary
licence for free software projects). The German court ruled in 2006 that the GNU GPL was indeed enforceable.
The main people involved in ifrOSS are Till Jaeger,
Axel Metzger,
Olaf Koglin,
Julia Küng,
Till Kreutzer.
References
External links
ifrOSS homepageDie GPL kommentiert und erklaert a book "The GPL commented and explained"
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Free and open-source software organizations