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It has already been tested in both the US and Germany.
Here are 2 cases:

GPL gains clout in German legal case, April 22, 2004

A German court has required a company to comply with the terms of the General Public License, giving some legal weight to the increasingly important document that governs Linux and innumerable other open-source programs.

From Findlaw:
Court Evaluates Meaning of "Derivative Work" in an Open Source License, June 16. 2003

The first court case involving the Gnu Public License (GPL) has been filed in Federal Court in Massachusetts, and all lawyers who counsel clients on open source matters should be aware of its existence, even though the case itself has so far provided little substantive help with open source interpretation issues. The case, Progress Software Corp. v. MySQL AB, Civil Action No. 01-11031 PBS, was filed on June 15, 2001. The plaintiff, Progress, is a U.S. software company that signed an interim agreement with a small Swedish software company, MySQL, to nonexclusively market the MySQL software product.

2 actual court cases, fairly simple to find. Basically, what is being enforced are Intellectual Property Laws (Copyright) which is enforceable if one does not comply with a license for use.
Posted by: B.O.F.H.   Posted on: 06/23/09  (Edited: 06/23/2009 @ 11:20) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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we need an international law  Linux Geek | 06/23/09
Or adopt the BSD license  Tiggster | 06/23/09
GPL is fine!  InAction Man | 06/23/09
Seriously?  Tiggster | 06/23/09
Eh ... maybe  daengbo | 06/26/09
that's not good enough  Linux Geek | 06/23/09
GPL doesn't prevent anything  Tiggster | 06/23/09
Apple and BSD  DeusExMachina | 06/24/09
Whatever nutjob  jackbond | 06/23/09
Gevernments do NOT get involved with civil matters.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/24/09
re: Gevernments do NOT get involved with civil matters.  goldenpirate@... | 06/24/09
*sigh*  zkiwi | 06/23/09
Stop worrying about it  Tiggster | 06/23/09
Isn't that too obvious?  InAction Man | 06/23/09
I guess following your logic...  zkiwi | 06/23/09
Much more difficult  Tiggster | 06/23/09
So...  zkiwi | 06/23/09
Seems to me...  rapson | 06/23/09
Ummm, sue for how much?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/23/09
Or expose them publicly.  InAction Man | 06/23/09
Do you think they care?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 06/24/09
That's not the idea...  scorchgeek | 06/24/09
FSF only sues if they do own the copyrights  gmatht | 06/24/09
Simple really!  InAction Man | 06/23/09
Then accept the consequences  Tiggster | 06/23/09
Ofcourse NOT  Aussie_Troll | 06/23/09
Minux??? You used the word MInux (whatever that may be) in a quote?  InAction Man | 06/23/09
Licenses allow one to use Copyrighted works.  B.O.F.H. | 06/23/09
The problem is enforcement  Tiggster | 06/23/09
It has already been tested in both the US and Germany.  B.O.F.H. | 06/23/09
And you think?  Tiggster | 06/23/09
It depends on the license a project/developer uses.  B.O.F.H. | 06/23/09
The question you keep dodging is...  Tiggster | 06/23/09
Tiggster, that is a question best asked of the lawyers.  B.O.F.H. | 06/23/09
This applies to GPL code only, not all Open Source works.  B.O.F.H. | 06/23/09
Cusotmers will learn to avoid companies that can't deliver.  softwareFlunky | 06/24/09
Dana, Are You STILL This Dense on The GPL?  dumptux | 06/24/09

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