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The Far-Reaching Implications of Licence Violation
When we think about the implications of non-compliance with F/OSS licensing the considerations tend to be around legal exposure and concern that the conditions of a reciprocal license, e.g. the GPL, may propagate into proprietary code. When risk is assessed it is usually in terms of the possibility of litigation and the associated costs, and/or the weakening of business models that are based upon exercising exclusive rights in connection with associated proprietary IP.

the full story:
http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/newsflashes/newsflash...
- 12 May 2010, 06:42 am
Robert Berger wrote: > When we think about the implications of non-compliance with F/OSS > licensing the considerations tend to be around legal exposure and > concern that the conditions of a reciprocal license, e.g. the GPL, > may propagate into proprietary code. When risk is assessed it is > usually in terms of the possibility of litigation and the associated > costs, and/or the weakening of business models that are based upon > exercising exclusive rights in connection with associated proprietary > IP. > > the full story: > http://www.reliableembeddedsystems.com/newsflashes/newsflash/the-far-reaching-implications-of-licence-violation.html