Jammag writes "Open source advocate Bruce Perens writes in Datamation about a major court victory for open source: 'An appeals court has erased most of the doubt around Open Source licensing, permanently, in a decision that was extremely favorable toward projects like GNU, inventive Commons, Wikipedia, and Linux.' The case, Jacobsen v. Katzer, revolved around free systems program coded by Bob Jacobsen that Katzer used in a proprietary form and then patented. When Katzer started sending invoices to Jacobsen (for what was fundamentally Jacobsen's own work), Jacobsen took the case to court and scored a victory that — for the first time — lays down a legal hardpan for the safeguard of open source developers. The case hasn't be caused as many cable as it should."

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