Bug#692728: Possible GPL violation: Geogebra

[Bruce Perens]

On 01/29/2014 09:57 AM, Hendrik Weimer wrote:
> If *all* languages are equally stored in a separate file, then 
> removing this file will stop the program from working.
Another file could be substituted for it, one created using a clean-room 
process so that we are certain it's not derivative, and the program 
would again operate and emit proper messages. So, we can't really use 
the fact that removing the file breaks the program to prove that all 
such files must be derivative of the program.

While it would be nice to see European courts ruling against precedents 
of U.S. courts in matters of technology copyright, the reality is that 
European attorneys do include precedence from US cases in their 
arguments, and the courts quite often follow them. They aren't required 
to follow them the way a court in the same US circuit might have to, but 
nor do they shun looking at the findings of a foreign court in a similar 
case.