German court addresses GPLv3 section 8 termination provisions (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com takesa look at a court case in Germany addressing the GPLv3 terminationprovisions. "In the Halle court case, the defendant, a higher education institution in Germany, offered certain software for download to its employees and students. The plaintiff provided a written warning of copyright infringement based on a GPL violation to the defendant, including a cease-and-desist declaration with a penalty clause. The defendant refused to sign the declaration but removed the software from its website. The plaintiff filed for a preliminary injunction.The court ruled that the plaintiff was entitled to a preliminary injunction. The defendant had made the plaintiff's copyrighted software publicly available and was in violation of both GPLv2 and GPLv3 as the defendant had not accompanied the software with the license text and the complete corresponding source code."