Single-company free software

Single-company free software

Posted Oct 13, 2005 15:24 UTC (Thu) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)
In reply to: Single-company free software by ekj
Parent article: Single-company free software

Thank you, that is a much better explanation regarding the binary module debate than I could have managed. This particular area of confusion effectively illustrates why we desparately need more case law to shape the legal framework we've created for open source development. As you've pointed out, these issues arise not just from ambiguities in the GPL, but from ambiguities in copyright law that affect us more than commercial developers who rely instead on contract law to enforce their software licenses. Again, until we see more court cases, we can't be sure about a lot of the "common knowledge" surrounding open source software.

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