OpenLogic Moves To Help Prevent License Lawsuits

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Courtesy Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Mon, 12/21/2009 - 08:00

Until just over two years ago, the General Public License, the all-pervasive Open Source license used by tens of thousands of Open Source projects, had never been the subject of a violation lawsuit — not once in its eighteen year history.

September 2007 brought an end to that, unleashing a flurry of lawsuits against some of the biggest names in technology, a flurry that is still underway.

In an effort to end the violations — and the litigation that comes...

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