ABD de bir federal itiraz mahkeme Artistic Lisansında ABD
      copyright kanunu kapsaminda, yani ticari lisanslar gibi kanunun
      kapsaminda oldugunu soyledi. Ozgur yazilim lisansi bir ürünü
      kıullanan kişi, lisansin sartlarını uymak zorunda seklinde karar
      verdi.

BBC kaynakli haberinin ingilizcesi ekte. haber "Europen Journalisim
Center" den alınma

      Saygılar

Mustafa Akgul

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      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/ 
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