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Californian Court Upholds Enforceability of Free and Open Source Licenses

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2017-05-05 07:49:24
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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Source: http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=98d5ec53-ce49-40fc-a2e4-7a1c84a2aa46 [lexology.com]

The District Court for the Northern District of California1 recently issued an opinion that is being hailed as a victory for open source software. In this case, the court denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit alleging violation of an open source software license, paving the way for further action enforcing the conditions of the GNU General Public License (“GPL”).

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