Seven Notable Legal Developments In Open Source In 2016

作者

  • Richard Fontana Red Hat, Inc.

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摘要

Several noteworthy open source-related legal developments took place in 2016. These concerned the fair use trial in Oracle v. Google, the reaction to the GPL enforcement lawsuits of Patrick McHardy, the dismissal of the Hellwig case, the U.S. Federal Source Code Policy, the end of Eben Moglen's tenure as Free Software Foundation general counsel, the distribution of ZFS by Linux distributions, and the banning of the JSON license by the Apache Software Foundation.

作者簡介

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    Richard Fontana is Senior Commercial Counsel, Products and Technologies  at Red Hat. Most of his work focuses on open source-related legal issues. Richard  is a past member of the Editorial Committee of the Review.

出版日期

2017-01-09

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Editorials