Yesterday I read an article in The New York Times about a judicial decision on a case related to FLOSS. It goes:
In a ruling Wednesday, the federal appeals court in Washington said that just because a software programmer gave his work away did not mean it could not be protected.
The New York Times, 2008
This means that now a company will think better the option of taking a piece of FLOSS code to close it and sell it as a proprietary code. The code in question was a Java Model Railroad Interface, apparently a popular software among model train hobbyists. A company (Kam Industries) was using the code and selling its “Software for the Digital RailRoad” (name that is a trade mark of the company). Anyway as Jhon Markoff put it in his article: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software.
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