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You can still pursue GPL violations in France, it just has to be framed as contract violations rather than copyright violations.
by snovv_crash 5y ago
You can still pursue GPL violations in France, it just has to be framed as contract violations rather than copyright violations.
- dathinab 5y agoDepending on the context you probably still could frame it as a copyright violations. My guess is that the problems lies in the aspects of the automatic termination of the contract not being valid in France law in exactly that way. I.e. it being "in between" valid and invalid until the court case around the termination is settled and in turn it means there is still a (breached) contract or similar. If that is the case you might be able to avoid this problem by making sure the contract is properly and explicitly terminated before you start suing, but it also requires the offender to continue using your software after you explicitly terminated the contract. I.e. you couldn't do it in retrospective, and it probably also would be a problem if there is a ongoing curt case for damages due to the breach of contract...