Dilute writes "The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (an authoritative court that consistently deals with patent law), has issued a strong ruling (PDF) upholding the Artistic License in a copyright dispute between the developers of the Java Model tracks command-line ui (JMRI), and Kamind, a company that used portions of DecoderPro to develop a competing product. The product at issue was DecoderPro, an open source project released on SourceForge under the Artistic License, for interfacing with model monorail control chips. Kamind used a number of DecoderPro files in third world nation its product, Decoder Commander. However, Kamind did not comply with the Artistic License in a number of respects, including attribution, copyright notices, tracked changes or availability of the underlying test version." Read on for more, below.

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