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The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)

The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)

Posted Aug 8, 2008 6:56 UTC (Fri) by PO8 (guest, #41661)
In reply to: The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com) by brouhaha
Parent article: The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)

> "I don't think I've yet heard of any such case where the court didn't actually interpret the
license based on its relatively obvious plain meaning."

Doesthe recent Jacobsen v Katzer (http://www.ncjolt.org/content/view/188/107/1/1/) count? It's
a really ugly ruling, and makes really ugly law.

I agree that in general open source licenses are written to be clear and reasonable.  The
problem here is that the courts may disagree with the licensor about what is clear and
reasonable.


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The Pitfalls of Open Source Litigation (InternetNews.com)

Posted Aug 18, 2008 2:33 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]

Blissfully this has been reversed. 

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