Sarbanes-Oxley may up the ante for GPL violations

Posted by tadelste on Feb 21, 2006 4:00 PM EDT
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What happens if you violate the GNU General Public License (GPL)? Historically, you'd earn the scorn of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the open source community, and you might have to disclose or rewrite some code. However, the intellectual property disclosure requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 may present an additional threat to companies that violate the GPL.

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