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Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in court: Free Software Foundation calls Cisco a leech, in courtDavid RavicherSurely, you mean Dan Ravicher? Unless he has a secret brother whom he's hired to work with him at SFLC.This is a test case ...Cisco understands the ramifications of what they're doing. There have been numerous rumors that Cisco plans to...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Katzer, GPL, Cisco Systems Inc., Free Software Foundation; Discussion threads 2008-12-12

Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses: Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license â€" and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law â€" the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday. The decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer PDF reverses a District Court holding that the a violation...; Tags: License, Radcliffe, Open Source, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-08-14
Open source license violation is contract breach, judge says, limiting remedies: Lawyer Mark Radcliffe identifies a recent decision with some important implications for open source licenses and the GPL. The case involves model railroad software and the relatively obscure Artistic License. The plaintiff argued that the defendant, Katzer, removed all of a program's original copyright notices and inserted his company name.The...; Tags: Open Source, Restriction, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZDNet Government; Blog posts 2007-08-27

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