Copyright Law | Expert Legal Commentary
December 16, 2008
Jacobsen v. Katzer: An Open Source License Is a Copyright License
Robert Jacobsen v. Matthew Katzer, et al.
By
Katherine G. Eickmeyer
In an opinion seen as a major development in open source jurisprudence, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in Jacobsen v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2008), open source licenses create conditions on the scope of the license, and failure to comply with those conditions may constitute copyright infringement.
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