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"Speaking of that, what's the extent of case law for open-source licenses? Is there a compilation somewhere of decisions that make for good background reading?
by nkurz 10y ago
"Speaking of that, what's the extent of case law for open-source licenses? Is there a compilation somewhere of decisions that make for good background reading? "
Sadly, no. There's basically only one or two decisions you can find at all.
Something is better than nothing. Can you name the ones that you think are relevant and readable?
Thanks!
- DannyBee 10y agoSure. On GPL issues, you have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobsen_v._Katzer and all the related appeals. This covers whether or not license violations are copyright infringement or breach of contract (something OSS lawyers felt was not settled for some reason, but has actually been well settled out in hollywood for many many years), what damages are for GPL if nobody is charging, etc. There is also busybox v. westinghouse and some other german cases as well i will try to pull out and paste links to here when i get a chance.