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IfrOSS

Institut für Rechtsfragen der Freien und Open Source Software, abbreviated to ifrOSS, (English: Institute for legal issues regarding free and open source software) is a German organisation that provides legal services for free software.

ifrOSS co-founder Till Jaeger was the legal representation in the first court case to lead to a court ruling on the enforceability of the GNU General Public License (the primary licence for free software projects). The German court ruled in 2006 that the GNU GPL was indeed enforceable.{{cite web

The main people involved in ifrOSS are Till Jaeger, Axel Metzger, Olaf Koglin, Julia Küng, Till Kreutzer.{{cite web

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  1. [https://www.linux.com/news/gpl-passes-acid-test-german-court/ GPL passes acid test in German court] Linux.com. 2006.
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