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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by fourthark on Saturday May 13, 2017 @11:29PM (#14334073)
A license can't affect the copyright of any other code. So Hancom is just in violation of the GPL and has lost its right to use Ghostscript; it's not automatically GPL'd.
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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by bdowling on Sunday May 14, 2017 @05:42AM (#14334933)
This is correct. Without a license, Hancom is liable for copyright infringement of the Artifex code if it continues distributing its product. It will be forced to either buy a license or reform its product to use an alternative, but it won't be forced to release its source code.
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