Open Source Copyrights Legally Enforceable

[uberdonkey5]

thought you all might be interested in this court decision. In short, a previous court ruling was over-ruled. They now say that although the software was free, the copyright conditions must be adhered to (namely "users who modify software governed by its terms to document the changes in subsequent distributions and to attribute the original software to its creator") AND financial damages can be sought.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/open_source/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210004154

Personally I see this as a good thing. Otherwise greedy people could use and abuse open-source software until eventually it no longer exists except as a relic of a previous era.

Whats your thoguhts?

[sydbat]

Whats your thoguhts?That Microsoft will use this to sue people because the open source stuff they have "proprietized" is somehow being "stolen"...

[drubin]

Great thing, pity such legal battles are hard to be won where I come from.

[Twitch6000]

This is help towards Open Source :).Hopefully nothing bad will come out of it.

[drubin]

That Microsoft will use this to sue people because the open source stuff they have "proprietized" is somehow being "stolen"...

LOL, sure if they used opensource stuff it would work better??

[zmjjmz]

Good thing they didn't say that we can't seek criminal charges, because copyright can't do much in the criminal realm.


Oh wait.