Thursday, August 14, 2008

Open Source Wins Landmark Legal Validation


Open source developers now have newly clarified protection, thanks to an appeals court ruling over the validity of their licenses. A judge with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that programmers who "engage in open source licensing" and copyright their work do "have the right to control the modification and distribution" of their products. The case draws clear lines around what had until now been uncertain territory...


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