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Jacobsen v. Katzer
Jacobsen (Fed. Cir. 2008): breaking an open-source license condition can be infringement.
Citation: Jacobsen v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2008)
Type: Case
Jurisdiction: Federal
Issuing body: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Status: Decided
Court: U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Parties: Jacobsen v. Katzer
Proceeding: court decision
Open-source licenses grant broad rights on conditions, such as attribution or making source code available. A licensee that breaks a condition may be infringing, not merely breaching a contract, because its use is outside the license's scope.
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