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

Autori

  • Lawrence Rosen

Parole chiave:

Open source licenses, contracts, enforcement, infringement, consideration

Abstract

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.

Biografia autore

  • Lawrence Rosen
    Founding partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag.
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Pubblicato

2009-05-08

Fascicolo

V. 1 N. 1 (2009)

Sezione

Articles

Licenza

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Come citare

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