An Open Source Legal Breakthrough 292
jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens writes in Datamation about a major court victory for open source: 'An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux.' The case, Jacobsen v. Katzer, revolved around free software coded by Bob Jacobsen that Katzer used in a proprietary application and then patented. When Katzer started sending invoices to Jacobsen (for what was essentially Jacobsen's own work), Jacobsen took the case to court and scored a victory that — for the first time — lays down a legal foundation for the protection of open source developers. The case hasn't generated as many headlines as it should."
I'm trusting the summary this time (Score:5, Funny)
Same as going into a morgue usually is a good test for students considering a medical career, this link is a perfect test for lawyers wanna be's.
profit lost (Score:5, Funny)
2, In all
3, relase as closed source application
4, PROFIT!!
Oh, wait... It does not work anymore?
Well I hope all copying, greedy suckers will learn the lesson!
Cheers
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:4, Funny)
"or dunked in a vat of whale spunk."
That's what I get for slacking off on /. when I'm supposed to be working. Thanks :(
Re:I'm trusting the summary this time (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Should? (Score:3, Funny)
And how many should it be generating?
Face it- the US president manufactured a complete financial meltdown and two wars which will most likely last over ten years. There's also another presidential election, which may be the first federal election in over ten years which hasn't been rigged.
You forgot to mention the part where Bush is a servant of the Anunnaki sent to keep the populace in control. How can you have a good conspiracy theory without EVIL ALIEN SERPENT PEOPLE [davidicke.com] ?
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:5, Funny)
"or dunked in a vat of whale spunk."
That's what I get for slacking off on /. when I'm supposed to be working. Thanks :(
No *that's* what you get for choosing to work at Whale Spunk Wholesalers, Inc.
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:3, Funny)
Hey at least he most likely works in the IT department there, not in Production "shudder"...
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:5, Funny)
According to the best research I can find in as much as I dared:
That's a lot of Shamu Shucking! Not impossible, mind you, but challenging. You'll need a good team with strong muscles, good aim, and earplugs so they aren't driven mad by the cacophony of "ooOOOo" caused by the whalegasms. You'll also need to ensure that the whales are either sufficiently into this, or you have a good supply of whale porn on hand.
And when you're done, if you haven't found some way to make enough money off this so you'll never have to work again, then you aren't trying hard enough.
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:5, Funny)
Sounds like a job for... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:profit lost (Score:3, Funny)
That's what the bad guy in "Tron" did. As we learned from that movie, all you need to counter this is a printout of the original header with your name on it stating the bad guy stole it.
The hard part of course is being digitized, joining the program resistance movement, fighting the Master Control Program and opening the data ports to the User to get that printout. That part is a real bitch.
Re:Wow a truly profane injustice defeated. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I'm trusting the summary this time (Score:3, Funny)
In this case, they're alleging that the other party spent about a million on his case. Perhaps a million isn't enough?
How about ... ONE HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS? </pinky>
Re:I'm trusting the summary this time (Score:4, Funny)