FOSS licenses upheld!
After a five-year struggle in US Federal District Court, Robert Jacobson recently prevailed in his copyright infringement claim against Matthew Katzer as a result of Katzer’s alleged misappropriation of open source code from Jacobson’s Java Model Railroad Interface project. You can read all of the story in more detail at ConsortiumInfo.org. The end result is a [...]
GPL, WordPress and Themes
I saw an intriguing post the other day by Jennifer Schiffer on WordPress, themes and the GPL. She linked to a video of Matt Mullenweg (one of WordPress’ lead developers) who was talking about why WordPress was a GPL product (short answer: they didn’t really have a choice because WP is based on b2, which [...]
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