On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Mike Schwartz 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@acm.org --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss