Top 10 legal issues for free software of 2013 (opensource.com)

Opensource.com covers some legal issues faced in 2013. Topics include Android patent litigation, license compliance, forks, enforcement, GitHub's license selection policy, good news in the patent wars, FOSS in government and in the private sector, contributor agreements, and collaborations. "On June 14, 2013, the district court of Hamburg found that Fantec violated the obligation in the GPLv2 to provide to its customers the "complete corresponding source code" of the software. Fantec objected that it had been assured by its Chinese supplier that the source code received from the supplier was complete. And Fantec claimed that they had investigated options with third parties for source code analysis and had been informed that such reviews were quite expensive and not completely reliable. The court rejected these excuses."

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