Caution: because I am talking about code libraries, this discussion will be technical - a combination of the worst of geek and lawyer-speak. Sorry.I had a discussion with a colleague yesterday about Apple’s choice of licenses used for open-sourcing of its Grand Central Dispatch (GCD) concurrency framework, which is a [...]
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in Jacobsen v. Katzer, issued a very important decision in a case of first impression relating to the enforcement of software licenses. In particular, it was the first federal appellate court decision to clarify whether failure to follow obligations [...]
Finally catching up on my blog clippings after a week of travel, and I found out that ACT has apparently won the inaugural "Scum of the Day" award from some angry British guy with a blog! I've ordered a case of Cristal for our DC and our Brussels offices in [...]
Paul Krill of Infoworld recently reported on a recent US federal court ruling, which Mark Radcliffe, counsel for the Open Source Initiative, fears “could derail enforcement of open-source licenses altogether” by foreclosing licensors’ ability to get an injunction against license violations. (Quotation to article, not Mark Radcliffe). In this ruling, [...]
The c|net News Blog recently reported on a study performed by Palamida, an open-source risk management company, that claims GPLv3 adoption at 50% of all GPL projects. As the blogger says: “That’s huge.” Or rather, it would be if it were true. According to Palamida, 382 projects have announced that they [...]