Black Duck patents OSS software license conflict analysis

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 6, 2010 8:22 AM EDT
ars technica; By Ryan Paul
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Bradley Kuhn, the technology director of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) expressed dismay this week after learning that Black Duck Software was granted a patent that covers software methods for detecting and resolving open source software licensing conflicts. Kuhn, who plays a major role in the SFLC's GPL enforcement efforts, contends that Black Duck's patent is far from novel and describes techniques that he has been using for licensing compliance analysis for over a decade.

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