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FOSS Legal Strategy Session Silicon Valley: Success!
http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.com/blog/?p=421
Bruce Perens: Inside Open Source's Historic Victory
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| Jacobsen v. Katzer is closed, after five
| years. Open Source won, and big. A
| manufacturer who attempted to collect
| royalties from an Open Source developer
| has lost two patents. As terms of his
| settlement with the developer, the
| manufacturer is paying $100,000 to the
| Open Source developer, has agreed to place
| himself under a permanent injunction, and
| has signed a release of any liability to
| all members of the Open Source project.
| The case was not âsealedâ like so many
| settled cases, so its documents are
| available to the public now.
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3866316/Bruce-Perens-Inside-Open-Sources-Historic-Victory.htm
FOSS devs can collect damages from license violators
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| Although the ruling won't set a broad
| precedent due to the fact that it emerged
| from a district court, it's still a
| significant victory for open source
| software licensing enforcement. The threat
| of having to pay monetary damages will
| give software companies a big incentive to
| refrain from abusing or misappropriating
| open source software code. In response to
| the ruling, Katzer finally agreed to
| settle with Jacobson last week. The
| conflict, which originally started five
| years ago, has reached an end.
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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/02/ruling-foss-devs-can-collect-damages-from-license-violators.ars
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