It has already stood up in the courts. It is a very specific license agreement that anyone can release software source code under. It doesn't replace the copyright for a user, since the person that writes something _always_ holds the copyright unless he signs it away to someone else, as often happens for journal articles as one example. But the GPL is very clear on what anyone other than the author can do with the source that is distributed under the GPL. The Free Software Foundation has attorneys that deal with GPL violators.Bill Rogers wrote:Robert
I have heard of GPL but only as it applies to chess. Is it an amendant to the Nations copyright laws? If not then I don't know how well it would stand up in a court of law.
Bill
It is very similar in context (but obviously not in meaning) to the license agreements we all accept with we use software distributed/sold to us by (say) Microsoft.