The Biggest Legal Danger For Open Source?

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 4, 2011 @12:27PM from the peta's-penguin-division dept.

itwbennett writes "Brian Proffitt is blogging about the undercurrent of legal issues troubling the open source world these days and offers up this question: Are patents or copyright a bigger threat to the open source community? Patents are the obvious choice, with inflicting fear being the 'obvious intention of those who have instigated the various legal troubles on open source practitioners.' But the issue of copyright and copyright assignments is no less troublesome, argues Proffitt. And copyright assignment can be confusingly Machievllian, even in open source land."

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Re:I only have 2 things to say to Brian Proffitt by Samantha+Wright · 2011-04-04 12:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Here's a better joke using the same material.
Threats to open source:
1. Patents
2. Copyrights
3. ???
4. Proffitt!
5. Other bloggers.

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Re:Patents by nitehawk214 · 2011-04-04 14:26 · Score: 5, Funny

nor have they stopped contributing to culture.
Me thinks you have never seen an episode of Hannah Montana.
Contributing to the demise, is still contributing.

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