Win For Open Source in Jacobsen v. Katzer
August 13th, 2008 by Joshua Kagan
Does a software developer waive his right to sue for copyright infringement by releasing his code under an open source license? This is the question to which the appellate court answered “no” today in Jacobsen v. Katzer.1
The plaintiff in this case is the manager of an open source software project whose code was improperly used [...]