[HLUG] BBC News: Legal milestone for open source

Paul Stenning paul at vintage-radio.com
Sun Aug 17 08:54:24 UTC 2008


I thought this would be of interest:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7561943.stm


Brief quote:

"In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licences set 
conditions on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the 
condition, the licence disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright 
infringer."

"This is a very important victory."



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