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March 22, 2005
open source in court
For those of you business owners wondering how the GNU General Public License and Open Source in general might affect their business in the case of a legal tussle, read closely. A recent Groklaw article discusses an interesting case Drew Technologies vs the Society of Automotive Engineers. An interesting read, discussing the dangers of car manufacturers trying to keep proprietary, information about software in new cars, information that could make those cars a safety & environmental hazard, among other things. Of particular interest in the article is how the Open Source GPL license came into play, and what impact that could have for other businesses.
Posted by admin at March 22, 2005 12:49 AM