Bad Facts Make Good Law: The Jacobsen Case and Open Source

Autor(i)

  • Lawrence Rosen

Ključne riječi:

Open source licenses, contracts, enforcement, infringement, consideration

Sažetak

For the first time, a major U.S. appeals court has held that an open source license is enforceable through preliminary injunctions. The court also found that exacting conditions in the form of compliance with open source requirements for disclosure and explanation of changes is entitled to recognition as consideration for a contractual license.

Biografija autora

  • Lawrence Rosen
    Founding partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag.
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Preuzimanja

Objavljeno

2009-05-08

Broj časopisa

Svezak 1 Br. 1 (2009)

Rubrika

Articles

Licenca

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Kako citirati

Bad Facts Make Good Law: The Jacobsen Case and Open Source. (2009). Journal of Open Law, Technology & Society, 1(1), 27-32. https://www.jolts.world/index.php/jolts/article/view/5