Ruling mentions GPL, 1800 MIT courses (was: Re: (NY Times...:) "...Victory for...[Free SW]")

[Joshua Zeidner]

  Mike,

   thanks for the news... interesting stuff. jmz

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:
> >
> > (("Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software
> >   New York Times (08/14/08) P. C7; Markoff, John"))
> >        http://technews.acm.org/#374965
> > Here are some excerpts:
> > << "In a major victory for the open source software movement, the
> > federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., has ruled [...]" >>
> > (basically, has ruled that licenses like the Gnu GPL -- [in this case,
> > it apparently was the "Artistic License"] -- are OK).
> > << "The lower court [had] ruled that the terms of the open source
> > contract [I think they mean "license"] were overly broad." >>
> > The "Click Here to View Full Article" link points to
> >  "http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/14/technology/14commons.html"
> > (at which point you can click on "Print") (-- if you are like me)
> > That [NY Times] article has some embedded hyper-links, such as
> > this one from (the word "_ruling_" in) the 2nd sentence:
> >    http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf
> > [...snip...]
> > --
> > Mike Schwartz
>
> I hadn't read (all of) the ruling
>     http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf
> when that initial post was sent.
> The ruling specifically talks about the Gnu GPL (and, in footnote 2
> at the bottom of page 7, it mentions that it is used for Linux).
> It also mentions several projects that use [quote] "public" licenses,
> such as Perl, Firefox, Apache and Wikipedia, and
> "the Gnu/Linux operating system"
> (but elsewhere, in footnote 2, the "Gnu/" part of that name is left out).
> Also (pay attention, teachers!) on pages 6/7, the ruling says
>     "For example, [MIT] uses a Creative Commons public license for an
> OpenCourseWare project that licenses all 1800 MIT courses."
> --
> Mike Schwartz
> Glendale AZ
> schwartz at acm.org
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