Christoph Hellwig's case against VMware dismissed

Nonetheless, these questions (on which the legal interest of the parties and their counsel presumably focus) can and must remain unanswered. This is because the very first requirement for conducting an examination, namely that code possibly protected for the Plaintiff as a holder of adapter’s copyright has been used in the Defendant’s product, cannot be established.

The GPL-infringement case brought against VMware by Christoph Hellwig in Germany has been dismissed by the court; the ruling is available in German and English . The decision seems to be based entirely on uncertainty over where his copyrights actually lie and not on the infringement claims. "" The ruling will be appealed Log in to post comments)