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Open source licence enforced under copyright law

A US federal appeals court has allowed an open-source licence to be enforced under copyright law, not just for breach of contract.

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Court: violating copyleft = copyright infringement

"Unlike the lower court, the appeals court seemed to understand that reciprocity lay at the heart of free software licenses. Just as traditional software firms thrive on the exchange of code for money, free software projects thrive on the exchange of code for code."

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Court: violating copyleft = copyright infringement

or free software because it's difficult to compute the monetary value of software that is given away free of charge. As a result, many violations of copyleft licenses could have been punished with small fines that would amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. The decision outraged the free software community and the broader free culture movement. In December, a broad coalition of organizations that rely on copyleft licenses, including Creative Commons, the Software Freedom Law Center, and the Wikimedia Foundation, filed an amicus brief urging that the ruling be overturned. The brief, authored by lawyers at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, pointed out that there are now hundreds of millions of works released under licenses similar to the Artistic License and suggested that the district court had failed to appreciate the potential conseque

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softwarefreedom.org | software freedom law center

the software freedom law center provides legal representation and other law-related services to protect and advance free and open source software.

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Slashdot | Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

BSD and GPL advocates may have a linguistic difference: one tries to protect the project, one tries to protect<sep/>

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Linguistic Problems of GPL Advocacy

Interesting take on GPL vs BSD and why their advocates can't seem to see eye to eye

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