Lawsuit Charges Open-Source License Violation
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In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., a lawsuit has been filed to enforce an open-source license.
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Opinion: Is Microsoft getting ready to explore intellectual property lawsuits against Linux and open-source software? If you can&#39;t beat them, sue them?
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Free Software Foundation takes on prominent Linux programmers' complaints against new features in General Public License revamp.
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Analysts say Network Appliance's lawsuit against Sun over ZFS code could become a test case for open-source software ownership.
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Inaccessible software Oracle is being taken to task in a lawsuit that complains software it sold to the state of Texas is unusable by blind employees.â¦
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&quot;We believe the current license is generally incompatible with open source, contrary to the practice of open Internet standards, and specifically incompatible with the Apache License 2.0.
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After EU antitrust ruling, company questions whether Microsoft's patent arrangement is compatible with open-source licensing.
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Open source can immediately prompt the words &#39;law suit&#39; in some peoples&#39; minds, but Black Duck have introduced a software platform that helps developers catch and resolve potential intellectual property disputes.
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Company sues alleged software piracy ring for selling counterfeit versions of its products, including Norton AntiVirus.
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Open source has many good uses.  Beating up one's competitors shouldn't be the primary one.
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SourceForge complies with a DMCA notice to remove open-source software designed to help you rip HD DVDs. But was it really infringing copyright? In 27Bstroke6.
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The producer of Wine is raising suspicion over whether virtualization company SWsoft, which makes Parallels, is failing to uphold the terms of its open source license by not releasing the source code it already admits to having modified.
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Class action suit accuses the software giant of violating state's business code.
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It is with regret that I urge all FOSS developers to treat anything Novell has contributed to the community as suspect, scrutinize any Novell contributions and purge them as deemed appropriate.  This threat is real, and it is not necessarily contingent upon whether or not Microsoft would actually sue customers for patent infringements.  This is a classic case of posturing.  Novell is leveraging its agreement with Microsoft in a way that harms all other Linux distributions and other FOSS projects. It is actively exploiting its unique position in ways that seem beneficial, but will pose risks to anyone but its own customers (and even their own customers are only protected for the next five years).
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Forget about Tivoization. How about adding a clause to the next version of the GPL that counters Novellization? The clause would say (in proper legalese), that if any code infringes on intellectual property or patents held by third parties, and the third parties take legal action, the contributors of the offending code assume 100% liability.  In short, if Novell injects Microsoft IP into open source and Microsoft wants to sue, it must sue Novell and nobody else, because Novell assumes liability under this new license.  This would render any "promise not to sue the end customer" agreement with Novell meaningless.
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In the first case in the U.S. over alleged General Public License violations, the Software Freedom Law Center sues over copyright infringement.
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Skirmish before Microsoft battle? The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed the first US patent infringement case to defend the General Public License (GPL) version 2. The case has been brought against Monsoon Multimedia, a specialist in video viewing and capturing devices, which has offices in Silicon Valley and in New Delhi.â¦