Gpl: Gnu General Public License And Derivative Works

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Mikko Valimaki

There are vast amounts of useful programming code available under GNU general public license today. Many programmers in companies and on their free-time use and contribute to different projects under GPL. However, this also means that there are legal risks with copyright infringement when GPL code is mixed with projects under other licenses. This presentation tackles the most central of them: the problem of derivative works under GPL. Recent cases such as MySQL vs. Nusphere have shown the importance of this issue.