ABD de bir federal itiraz mahkeme Artistic Lisansýnda ABD
copyright kanunu kapsaminda, yani ticari lisanslar gibi kanunun
kapsaminda oldugunu soyledi. Ozgur yazilim lisansi bir ürünü
kýullanan kiþi, lisansin sartlarýný uymak zorunda seklinde karar
verdi.
BBC kaynakli haberinin ingilizcesi ekte. haber "Europen Journalisim
Center" den alýnma
Saygýlar
Mustafa Akgul
---- Legal milestone for open source Advocates of open source software have hailed a court ruling protecting its use even though it is given away free. The US federal appeals court move overturned a lower court decision involving free software used in model trains that a hobbyist put online. The court has now said conditions of an agreement called the Artistic Licence were enforceable under copyright law. "For non-lawgeeks, this won't seem important but this is huge," said Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig. "In non-technical terms, the Court has held that free licences set conditions on the use of copyrighted work. When you violate the condition, the licence disappears, meaning you're simply a copyright infringer. "This is a very important victory." According to details outlined in the ruling, Robert Jacobsen had written and then released code under an Artistic Licence. This meant anyone using that free code had to attribute the author, highlight the original source of the files and explain how the code had been modified. Jacobsen, who manages open source software group Java Model Railroad Interface, accused commercial software developer Matthew Katzer and his company of ignoring the terms of the Artistic Licence when they took his code and used it to develop commercial software products for trains. The ruling has implications for the Creative Commons licence which offers ways for work to go into the public domain and still be protected. These licenses are widely used by academic organisations like MIT for distributing coursework, scientific groups, artists, movie makers and Wikipedia among others. http://www.ejc.net/media_news/legal_milestone_for_open_source/ --- Her hangi bir nedenle acik-duyuru listesinden cikmak istiyorsaniz, acik-duyuru-unsubcribe_at_acik-kaynak.org.tr adresine bos/dolu bir mesaj atiniz. Bir insanla yazismak gerekirse acik-duyuru-admins_at_acik-kaynak.org.tr adresine atiniz.Received on Wed 20 Aug 2008 - 19:59:55 EEST