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A Big Change for Open Source
Bruce Perens on the recent JMRI/GPL ruling:
"For a decade there'd been questions: Are Open Source licenses enforceable at all? Are their terms, calling for a patent detente or disclosure of source code, legal? Are they contracts, which require agreement by all parties to be valid, or licenses, which are binding even if you don't agree to then? What legal penalties can a Free Software developer employ: only token damages, or much more? The court's ruling makes the answers to these clear. Did such weighty questions come up in cases involving IBM, Sun, HP, or Red Hat? No, this is the quirky world of Free Software: it was a court case about model trains."
Did You Say "Intellectual Property"? It's a Seductive Mirage - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
copyright law, trademark law and patent law have different origins and motivations and shouldn't be grouped together
NewsForge | A GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros
Must be very meticulous when using open source software about keeping track of the source code used. Even if it comes from another party (like upstream distro). There is discussion whether this is really a problem or not.
bookmark this on del.icio.usEnforcing the GNU GPL - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)
Eloquently makes the argument that the GPL is a license, not a contract.
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