<div dir="ltr">This is an article by Bruce Perens regard OS licensing and its validity. <br><br>Of note from the article is the Federal Circuit Court appeal ruling:<br><br><i>The judge's decision was appealed in the Federal Circuit Court. A large
number of Open Source projects and their attorneys, working for free,
filed a "friend of the court" brief. What the appeals court found was,
essentially, that the Free Software license was a license, rather than
a contract, that it does not require that both parties agree before it
can be binding, that its terms can be enforced, that if you violate the
license you're a copyright infringer, and that<b> violation of an Open
Source license causes real economic damage to the copyright holder even
though the copyright holder doesn't charge money for his software.</b></i><br><br>Here's the article: <a href="http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3775446_2">http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3775446_2</a><br>
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