[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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