August 20, 2008

Open source now protected by Law



If you've always been a victim of scandalous code alteration by some lame dude who messes it all up after your laborious effort geared for public collaboration, we've got good news :

US federal appeals court has ruled a new open source code protection under copyright law, even when it's been given for free. One will now be considered a license infringer if the modification they did was not attributed to the original author.

This is a very welcoming change indeed and would surely encourage more open community creations. Waiter, one more freebie please!

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