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This article serves to alert any person in any company that distributes computer software or devices which contain software: your software may be susceptible to a copyright infringement lawsuit
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) has ruled in the much-watched case Jacobsen v. Katzer, No. 2008-1001 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 13, 2008), which turned on whether violating an open source licensing agreement should be considered copyright infringement
The Software Freedom Law Center ("SFLC") continued its series of copyright infringement lawsuits against companies distributing "open source software" embedded in their products allegedly in violation of the license governing the open source software
