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Kamind Associates, Inc. A.k.a. KAM Industries

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Copyright Law

Jacobsen v. Katzer: An Open Source License Is a Copyright License
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…
Posted:
12/16/2008
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Federal Circuit Holds That Open Source Code Licensors Are Entitled to Copyright Protection Governing Use of Code
The issue in this case was whether a copyright holder who made certain copyrighted programming code available for free public use could validly enforce an “open source” copyright license to control the distribution and modification of that software.  Plaintiff-appellant Jacobsen appealed from an order denying his motion for preliminary injunction.…
Date of ruling:
08/13/2008
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