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From potential issues with licenses to evaluating the future development of a particular project, there are risks to consider before adopting open source software.
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Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal
Posts Tagged ‘licenses’
Managing Open Source Risk and Keeping It Legal
April 30th, 2010 
Admin Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community
March 30th, 2010 Admin
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Recently, we covered a number of legal resources that can help keep open source projects and developers out of harm’s way. From new types of licenses to free guides online, the number of legal tools specific to FOSS is growing, and now, lawyers focused on open source joining forces online. As Luis Villa, a lawyer at the Mozilla Corporation notes in a blog post , there is even now a journal focused on open source law called International Free and Open Source Software Law Review
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Free Online Journal Targets The FOSS Legal Community
Posted in Open Source News 
Tags: focused-on-open, forge-removes, law review, Legal, licenses, review, science, source, technology 
No Comments »4 Resources For Keeping Open Source Efforts Legal
March 12th, 2010 Admin
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You can never be too careful about the law if you’re working in the open source world.
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Posted in Open Source News Tags: end-item, europe, free-resources, gpl, Legal, legal-primer, licenses, model-train, open-source, source-wins, spirit, status.net No Comments »The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins
February 19th, 2010 Admin |
Although some people viewed it as a tempest in a teapot, the long-running legal case Jacobsen v. Katzer stirred up some seminal open source issues. We first reported on the dust-up all the way back in August of 2008 , noting that the dispute centered around–of all things–model train software
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The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins
Posted in Open Source News Tags: code, court ruling, dispute, europe, jmri, lawrence-lessig, licenses, open-source, united-states No Comments »The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins
February 19th, 2010 Admin |
Although some people viewed it as a tempest in a teapot, the long-running legal case Jacobsen v. Katzer stirred up some seminal open source issues. We first reported on the dust-up all the way back in August of 2008 , noting that the dispute centered around–of all things–model train software.
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The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins
Posted in Open Source News Tags: code, dispute, europe, federal-circuit, jacobsen, jmri, katzer, lawrence-lessig, licenses, model trains, project, source No Comments »
