(("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
By the way, the (appellate) judge here, was Faith Hochberg.
I *thought* that name rang a bell;
(but probably not from facebook;  she [or someone with the same name?] seems to
be shown there, with only one friend.)  But (aha!) a search shows:
   http://technews.acm.org/archives.cfm?fo=2008-08-aug/aug-11-2008.html#374376
so yes, (sure enough) that same judge was in the news very recently.
--
Mike Schwartz
Glendale AZ
schwartz@acm.org
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