With the rapid development of the cause of open source, the legal issues of open source have attracted unprecedented attention, especially the topic of "license use and disputes", which often causes hot debate. The editorial department of Open Source China has long observed the issues raised by developers in terms of licenses, summarized relevant issues, and borrowed this year's

Author: Xiao Ying; Planning: h4cd In 2007, Google opened the core code of Android, which is called the Android Open Source Project (AOSP). With Android developed internally by Google

No open source license is more topical than GPL, because it is highly contagious. GPL stipulates that the distribution of derivatives must also be open source based on GPL. It sounds simple, just open source code, but many enterprises can't do it. Therefore, many open source authors

Last year, the publication of a judgment document on a GPL copyright dispute case attracted wide attention from the open source community. The case came from Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court, which clarified the legal effect of the GPLV3 agreement. The defendant did not open the source code to the public for free because he used GPL related software

The GPL agreement has always been a monument in my mind, which is simply awesome. But few people have actually read GPL. Even most programmers have never seen the real GPL. The reason is very simple. First, I don't care, second, I'm too lazy to read it, and third, I don't think I can read it

At the beginning of this month, OceanBase, a database product developed by Ant Financial, announced open source and adopted MulanPubL-2.0, a Mulan public agreement. Some articles referred to this agreement as "Mulan License". In fact, this abbreviation is easy to cause confusion. Mulan series license includes "Mulan

Recently, a judgment document on GPL copyright dispute case was publicized. The verdict of the first instance shows that the GPL3.0 agreement is a civil legal act with the nature of a contract, which can be identified as a copyright agreement between the licensor and the user, and falls within the scope of adjustment of the Contract Law of China. First instance

Trump's infant social network "True Social" was accused of violating AGPLv3. Trump Media and Technology Group recently released the social network "True Social". Subsequently, the Software Freedom Protection Association SFC pointed out that the software copied the AGPLv3 protection

Author: Deng Chao 18611123013 software was attached to computer hardware (mainframe) for professionals at the beginning of its birth. It has almost no independent value and is not protected by copyright law or patent law. Later, with the emergence of microprocessors and personal computers, the use of computers

On October 17, the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, as one of the sponsors of the "Open Source Festival", held the open source legal preaching forum as scheduled. Zhang Ping, the first preacher and law professor of Peking University, started from the license to talk about the order of the open source world. Zhang Ping said that open source has

Which license should be chosen as the agreement for their open source software has always puzzled many developers and companies. Now some lawyers have given very clear views and very precise conclusions. On October 17, on the "Open Source Festival" Open Source Law Evangelism Public Welfare Forum, Ladas

On October 7, the United States Supreme Court held an oral debate on Oracle Oracle v. Google. The core of the dispute in the case has always been whether Oracle can claim the copyright of Java API, and if so, whether Google infringes these copyrights? Java A...

On the evening of the 22nd, Wu Sheng, Apache SkyWalking Founder, pointed out in his circle of friends that SkyWalking could only temporarily refuse the plug-in requirements for the Vipshop Saturn project because it violated the requirements of the open source agreement. Saturn is a fork from ElasticJob, and has changed the copyright letter

Latest update: According to Wang An, CEO of DCloud, there are errors in the description of DCloud and APICloud litigation in this article. Wang An said: 1. Beijing has a special "Beijing Intellectual Property Court", whose research on GPL is professional. 2. As far as I know, China

April 26 is World Intellectual Property Day. Many people may think that it has nothing to do with software development, but in fact, most open source software is protected by the copyright law in the intellectual property law. Although open source software opens the source code, users