Open Source Wins Landmark Legal Validation

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 14, 2008 9:00 PM EDT
LinuxInsider; By JR Raphael
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Open source developers now have newly clarified protection, thanks to an appeals court ruling over the validity of their licenses. A judge with U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that programmers who"engage in open source licensing" and copyright their work do"have the right to control the modification and distribution" of their products.

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