On Friday 15 August 2008, Kirk Wallace wrote:
>Has anyone been following the Jacobsen v. Katzer issue? It's seems to
>indicate that, until now maybe, an open source developer could be sued
>if some else decide to make their work into a commercial product.
Open source licensing got a huge boost in validity this past week in the model
railroad controller software case, where the software was distributed under
the 'Artistic License' and someone took it, changed all the credits, then put
it on the market as a pretty pricey package. It wound up in court cuz the
new guys tried to shut down the authors distribution & they countersued. See
Groklaw for a full description in two different stories, but it sure looks
like it puts a much sharper set of teeth in the GPL and other similar
copyleft licenses. This was in the Appeals court, one rung down from scotus.
--
Cheers, Gene
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soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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barely presentable.
-- Fran Lebowitz, "Metropolitan Life"
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