PT Journal AU Jaeger, T TI Enforcement of the GNU GPL in Germany and Europe SO JIPITEC PY 2010 BP 34 EP 39 VL 1 IS 1 AB GPL enforcement is successful in Europe. In several court decisions and out of courtsettlements the license conditions of the GPL have been successfully enforced. In particular, embeddedsystems are the main focus of such compliance activities. The article describes the practice ofenforcement activities and the legal prerequisites under the application of German law. ER