Until now there have been few legal tests of Open Source licensing and the legal principles on which they are based. Sites like Wikipedia, services like Creative Commons, open courseware such as that at MIT, and software like Linux all rely on a web of previously untested legal licenses to protect them and their content. The court ruled that exceeding the terms of a license, including an open source license, unleashes the full protection of copyright law. Read the short announcement (and great commentary) at Slashdot. Read the full story in this October 3, 2008, Datamation article.
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