Court Equates Contract Breach with Copyright Infringement It s a new
August 31, 2008 – 11:00 amCourt Equates Contract Breach with Copyright Infringement
It s a new day for open source developers. A U.S. Federal appeals court yesterday ruled that someone releasing code under an open source license can control future use of that code using copyright law. That s important because copyright laws carry stronger remedies including court injunction along with the monetary remedies available for breach of contract. The 15-page ruling in Jacobsen v. Katzer favored Robert Jacobsen, a model train hobbyist who gave away his Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) software under the Artistic License for free software. Through the collective work…
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