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Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:55:08 -0400
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Alexander Terekhov wrote:
And the reasons being what
Quote the brief and yourself

<http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/jacobsen-amicus-brief.html>
    FOSS license violations ... sever the developer’s legal
    relationship with other licensees who never become aware
    of their rights.

Me:
    Once open-licensed code is distributed to users without
    making them aware of their extra-copyright permissions,
    the interests of the copyright holder as expressed by
    his license can't generally be recovered because the
    users aren't tracked.


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