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

著者

  • Lawrence Rosen

キーワード:

Open source licenses、 contracts、 enforcement、 infringement、 consideration

要旨

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.

著者略歴

  • Lawrence Rosen
    Founding partner, Rosenlaw & Einschlag.

発行日

2009-05-08

巻号

セクション

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