Posts Tagged ‘jacobsen v. katzer’

Recent Open Source Software Ruling

Friday, January 9th, 2009

We just came across this post at the Law & Life: Silicon Valley Blog about a recent update in the Jacobsen v. Katzer case in the federal District Court in San Francisco, a case with connections to Portland, and which has already produced a number of important legal decisions about open source software (OSS).  As the author notes, an appeal last year in the case produced a great victory for licensors of OSS, while this most recent Order by District Judge Jeffrey White is a setback for OSS licensors seeking to enjoin copyright infringement because the burden to obtain an injunction for copyright infringement has been elevated.  (more…)