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Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia

9 points| acefaceZ | 1 year ago |theregister.com

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acefaceZ|1 year ago

The open-source community is finally realizing that Neo4j v. PureThink could set a dangerous legal precedent, allowing companies to impose new restrictions on open-source licenses.

If the Ninth Circuit upholds the lower court’s ruling, it won’t just threaten the GPL, it could undermine all open-source licenses, undoing years of work to protect software freedom.