# IfrOSS

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

ifrOSS co-founder [Till Jaeger](/source/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](/source/GNU_General_Public_License) (the primary [licence for free software](/source/free_software_licence) projects).  The German court ruled in 2006 that the GNU GPL was indeed enforceable.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/78002
|title=GPL prevails in German court
|quote=District Court in Frankfurt-on-the-Main has for the first time confirmed the validity of the GNU General Public License (GPL)}}</ref><ref>[https://www.linux.com/news/gpl-passes-acid-test-german-court/ GPL passes acid test in German court] Linux.com. 2006.</ref>

The main people involved in ifrOSS are Till Jaeger, [Axel Metzger](/source/Axel_Metzger), [Olaf Koglin](/source/Olaf_Koglin), [Julia Küng](/source/Julia_K%C3%BCng), [Till Kreutzer](/source/Till_Kreutzer).<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.ifross.org/personen
|title=ifross.org - Personen}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://ifross.org ifrOSS homepage]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070808172413/http://ifross.org/ifross_html/Druckfassung/Die_GPL_kommentiert_und_erklaert.pdf Die GPL kommentiert und erklaert], a book "The GPL commented and explained"

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