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Jacobsen v Katzer Settled — Victory For F/OSS

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nice-to-come-out-on-top-for-a-change dept.

Andy Updegrove writes "A short while ago the parties to one of the most closely watched FOSS cases filed a settlement agreement with the US Federal District Court for the Northern District of California ending one of the most important F/OSS legal cases to date. That case is Jacobsen vs. Katzer, and the settlement marks a complete victory for Jacobsen, a member of the Java Model Railroad Interface (JMRI) Project. Jacobsen's victory establishes several important rights for the first time in the US: the right to prevent their copyright and authorship acknowledgments from being removed from their code, and the right to collect damages if the terms of the licenses they choose are violated. Until now, those rights had never been tested in court."

2 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Re:showing monetary value? by BenSchuarmer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For one thing, Katzer thought it was worth stealing.

  2. Re:Huzzah for Important Rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you ever kind of just wake up and realize you've been talking for a few minutes and wonder what it was you were talking about?