BLOG - The Model Train Software Brouhaha Ends: Open Source Wins

Feb 19, 2010 3 Replies

OStatic


19th February 2010

Sam Dean



" Although some people viewed it as a tempest in a teapot, the long- running legal case Jacobsen v. Katzer stirred up some seminal open source issues "



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That's a nice looking model of a 4DD they used to illustrate the article.

This has been effectively a test case for the validity of open source licences, and is highly significant. Mind you, it only came about because some dumb US judge made a ruling a few years back that make no sense whatsoever.

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