Top 10 FOSS legal developments of 2014 (Opensource.com)

Mark Radcliffe covers some legal developments from 2014, on Opensource.com. "Governments are one of the most important users of software but have had a mixed record in using and contributing to FOSS (free and open source software). The EC recently announced that it intends to remove the barriers that may hinder code contributions to FOSS projects. In particular, the EC wants to clarify legal aspects, including intellectual property rights, copyright, and which author or authors to name when submitting code to the upstream repositories. Pierre Damas, Head of Sector at the Directorate General for IT, hopes that such clarification will motivate many of the EC’s software developers and functionaries to promote the use of FOSS at the EC."

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