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+-   Bruce Perens on an Open Source Legal Breakthrough-> on Friday October 03 2008, @09:18AM jammag

Submitted by jammag on Friday October 03 2008, @09:18AM
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jammag writes ""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," writes open source advocate Bruce Perens. The case, Jacobsen vs. Katzer, revolved around Free software coded by 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."
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