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From: | Hyman Rosen |
Subject: | Re: JMRI case -- Implementation of the Federal Circuit's Opinion |
Date: | Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:55:08 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) |
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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