Miro Blog » open licenses http://blog.getmiro.com Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:54:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Open License Upheld in US Court http://blog.getmiro.com/2008/08/open-license-upheld-in-us-court/ http://blog.getmiro.com/2008/08/open-license-upheld-in-us-court/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:34:11 +0000 Dean Jansen http://www.getmiro.com/blog/?p=484 Professor Lawrence Lessig reports on a ruling that protects “open source licenses.” The opinion was rendered by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (they have the final say on US Intellectual Property disputes). The the provisions outlined by the Artistic License were upheld as legally binding.

The precedent set here should also protect other open licenses (GPL, Creative Commons, BSD, etc). The case is a nice legal affirmation of the values we’ve all been putting into our free and openly licensed works for so long!

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