A federal appeals court in the US has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open-source licence while preventing such code being used commercially without ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Supporters of free online software scored a victory with a Federal Circuit ruling that extended copyright protection to software that programmers let others freely download on the ...

Although the open source movement has been active for more than a decade, it is only in recent months that such a copyright license actually has received the imprimatur of enforceability — from an ...

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A federal appeals court in the United States has upheld the right of a copyright holder to distribute software under a free or open source license while preventing such code being used commercially ...