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  Information Week: Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable
Interesting Developments Posted by Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS on Thursday August 14, 2008 @ 02:52 PM
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Information Week is reporting. "A federal appeals court has struck down a lower court ruling that found that open source copyrights may not be legally enforceable if they're licensed under terms that are "intentionally broad." Ruling on an appeal brought by software developer Robert Jacobsen, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said Wednesday that open source users that do not comply with the software's strict licensing terms can, in fact, be sued for copyright infringement -- even if the software is free..." Thanks to Will Ross for this link. Digg this article



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