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2016 / COSCUP 2016

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How to manage FOSS legal risk from infringements in practice

2016.05.30 - OINTILO:

http://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2009/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf

https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html

Patrick McHardyOut of court settlement

Contractual Penalties accumulated and accelerated in a "creative" way

The right version for Source Code could be one of the legal claims however most of them are about attribution and other obligations stipulated by GPL

Warning Letter / Preliminary injunction

Source Code

Copyright Notice

License Text

Source Code

Copyright Notice

License Text

LEGAL.ABOUT

NOTICE.README

LICENSE.COPYING

Copyright 201x XXXXXX Corporation

This product incorporates the following copyright:(1) the software framework developed independently by XXXXXX Corporation,(2) the software components owned by third parties and licensed under separate User Agreements or Free and Open Source Software Licenses such as GNU General Public License to XXXXXX Corporation, the respective copyright notices and disclaimers of them please refer to the "NOTICE LINK/FILE".(3) the Free and Open Source Software licensing rules such as condition and obligations, please refer to the terms at "LICENSE LINK/FILE".(4) shall you require Corresponding Source Code of the part licensed under Free and Open Source Software Licenses, you or any third party holding this written offer can request it at no charge within three years from acquirement of the product at "http://sourcecode.XXXXXX.com", or for the delivery on a medium with a charge no more than the cost of physically Source Code distribution performing at the contact information provided below. Contact InformationXXXXXX Corporation Customer Service CenterPhone : +886-XXX-XXXEmail : sourcecode@XXXXXX.com

LEGAL.ABOUT

The related notices and disclaimers of Free and Open Source Software components are attributed as is according to the guidance of the original providers by the received date, more details or updating information please refer to the legal notifications of the respective source ones."

component A: *LICENSE: GPL-2.0 *LINK:http://xxx.yyy.zzz/ *original copyright notice cited here *original disclaimer cited herecomponent B: *LICENSE: MIT *LINK:http://xxx.yyy.zzz/ *original copyright notice cited here *original disclaimer cited here......................................................

NOTICE.README

GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPL-2.0)

GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSEVersion 2, June 1991

Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copiesof this license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This General Public License applies to most of the Free Software Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to your programs, too...............................

The MIT License (MIT)

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

LICENSE.COPYING

http://marc.info/?l=netfilter-devel&m=146887464512702&w=2

http://www.netfilter.org/files/statement.pdf

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/

MySQL http://www.mysql.com/

Fair Use at: https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government#t-506233

http://law.moj.gov.tw/LawClass/LawSingle.aspx?Pcode=J0070017&FLNO=90

90

Copyright Act Article 90Each holder of copyrights in a joint work may, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, separately demand remedies from the infringer, and may also claim damages based on its share of copyright ownership.

Fair Use at: https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government#t-506233

Legal disputes in Open Licensing

We should talk it through

Supply Chain

Asia Region matters

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/openchain/start

https://fsfe.org/activities/ftf/network.en.html

Chatham House Rule

When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.

Chatham House

Chatham House

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