FSF: Judge won't dismiss alleged GPL violation: Why this matters

Last month LWN pointed to an article aboutthe Artifex v. Hancom case, in which Hancom used Artifex's Ghostscript inits office product. The Free Software Foundation looks at the caseand the recent ruling. "On the latter, the judge found that thebusiness model of Artifex indicated a loss of revenue, but also noted thatharm could be found even where money isn't involved. The judge, quoting a prior case,noted that there are 'substantial benefits, including economicbenefits, to the creation and distribution of copyrighted works underpublic licenses that range far beyond traditional license royalties.'While not [dispositive], this last note is particularly interesting formany free software developers, who generally share their work at nocost."