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Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe, by Till Jaeger
Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe
~ by Till Jaeger

[Dr. iur., Partner at JBB Rechtsanwälte, Berlin; Co-founder of the Institute for Legal Questions on Free and Open Source Software (ifrOSS); Representative of gpl-violations.org project in its enforcement activities. A PDF of this article is available here.]
Abstract

GPL enforcement is successful in Europe. In several court decisions and out of court settlements the license conditions of the GPL have been successfully enforced. In particular, embedded systems are the main focus of such compliance activities. The article describes the practice of enforcement activities and the legal prerequisites under the application of German law.

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XML::Mini::Element::Header(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   XML::Mini::Element::Header(3pm)

NAME

       XML::Mini::Element::Header - represents XML headers in XML::Mini parser

DESCRIPTION

       The XML::Mini::Element::Header is used internally to represent <? xml blah="hohoho" ?> type headers.

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       Copyright (C) 2002-2008 Patrick Deegan, Psychogenic Inc.

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