The actual case is a bit less black & white. What happened was that two developers left a company and then effectively forked and repackaged the GPL software th

The actual case is a bit less black & white. What happened was that two developers left a company and then effectively forked and repackaged the GPL software they had worked on at the previous outfit - and sold it also as GPL. The original company sued them for failing to mention that it was a derivative work of their original code, as the GPL would require. It's a bittersweet ruling: yes, GPL terms were found enforceable in Italy, but in practice the little guys got shafted over a technicality (and arguably against the original spirit of the license).