Open source license litigation involves lawsuits surrounding open-source licensed software. Many of the legal rights of open source software licensors...
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Open-source licenses are software licenses that allow content to be used, modified, and shared. They facilitate free and open-source software (FOSS) development...
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the license means in different jurisdictions may vary and is hard to predict." Free and open-source software portal Comparison of free and open-source software...
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license family has been one of the most popular software licenses in the free and open-source software (FOSS) domain. Prominent free software programs...
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The Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a free and open source software license most notably used for the Eclipse IDE and other projects by the Eclipse Foundation...
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with a software license which grants the recipient these rights. Software using such a license is free software (or free and open-source software) as conferred...
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my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and I have the right under that license to submit that work with modifications, whether...
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licenses;[better source needed] this despite both licenses being approved by both the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation. License compatibility...
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CeCILL (redirect from CeCILL license)
does not grant a patent license (as some other common open-source licenses do), but rather includes a promise by the licensor not to enforce any patents...
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The Educational Community License (ECL) is a free and open source license based on the Apache license (version 2.0) and created with the specific needs...
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second-source agreement is particularly famous for leading to much litigation between the two parties. The agreement gave AMD the rights to second-source later...
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RhodeCode (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
copyleft fight—without litigation. Interview with Bradley Kuhn, Software Freedom Conservancy". Opensource.com. "RhodeCode Goes Open Source". 25 May 2016. Retrieved...
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since it began operation and, like its competitors and peers, engages in litigation in its normal course of business for a variety of reasons. In particular...
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transparency in order to prevent litigation costs associated with software misuse, as set forth by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. License management solutions provided...
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NetHack (redirect from NetHack General Public License)
time, the license explicitly states that the source code is not covered by any warranty, thus protecting the original authors from litigation. The NetHack...
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Software Freedom Conservancy (category Free and open-source software organizations)
the litigation, Hellwig decided not to appeal further. Free and open-source software portal Apache Software Foundation Free Software Foundation Open Source...
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SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp. (section Free software and open source community reaction)
published itself under a license that specifically permitted unrestricted copying and distribution. On July 31, 2003, the Open Source Development Labs released...
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has been involved in numerous high-profile legal matters that involved litigation over the history of the company, including cases against the United States...
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license agreement. List of computer simulation software List of emulators Comparison of platform virtualization software "CherryOS goes open source"...
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Patent pool (redirect from Patent licensing pool)
patent pool is a consortium of two or more companies agreeing to cross-license patents relating to a particular technology. The creation of a patent pool...
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will manage the new engine, which will be licensed under the open source Apache 2.0 license. The new engine is reportedly partially based on Lumberyard...
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Bnetd (category Free and open-source software)
in December 1998. However, because the project was open sourced under the GNU General Public License, the project was continued by a group of volunteers...
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against OpenAI on copyright litigation ground. The lawsuit is said to have charted a new legal strategy for digital-only publishers to sue OpenAI. On April...
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those in the Apache License and Mozilla Public License, which terminates rights granted by the license in response to litigation alleging patent infringement...
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StepMania (category Open-source video games)
variety of rhythm-based game types. Released under the MIT License, StepMania is open-source free software. Several video game series use StepMania as...
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Samsung and InterDigital entered into a patent license agreement that "resolves all pending litigation between the two companies". The agreement is cited...
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an NPE seeks to enforce its right through the negotiation of licenses and litigation"), "patent assertion entity" (PAE), "non-manufacturing patentee"...
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Mono (software) (category Software using the MIT license)
compliant, free and open-source CLI virtual machine. Microsoft issued a statement that covers both standards under their Community Promise license. The Mono/Linux/GNOME...
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Android (operating system) (redirect from Android Open Source Project)
known as the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) and is free and open-source software (FOSS) primarily licensed under the Apache License. However, most devices...
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FreeBSD (category Software using the BSD license)
they wish. This license was approved by Free Software Foundation and Open Source Initiative as a Free Software and Open Source license respectively. Free...
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