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On this week’s Singularity Law Podcast, Michael and I briefly discussed some of the conflicts that exist between various copyleft licenses. Since then, I’ve had a few conversations with friends and attorneys (one at a job interview, in fact) in which I’ve detected some significant misunderstandings about the way these licenses relate to each other. [...]
The DMCA celebrates its tenth birthday; are we better off than we were ten years ago? Who is the real winner in the Google Book Search settlement? Can California’s legislature control violent video games? Michael and Josh tackle these questions and more on this week’s edition of The Singularity Law Podcast!
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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 [...]
Free software1 promotes the study and improvement of computer programming methods.
Free software licenses like the GPL ensure that the whole community of users can benefit whenever an improvement is discovered, not just a few who “discovered it first.”
Open source code can be used to solve absolutely any problem for which it is suited or can [...]