[governance] news: no US antitrust liability for open source

[Jeffrey Hunker]

Sylvia,

I for one found your posting (and the source -- FindLaw) to be very valuable. Thank you for sharing this.

Jeffrey Hunker
Carnegie Mellon University

> The US Seventh Circuit, known for jurists steeped in theories of law and
> economics, has weighed in definitively against antitrust liability for
> open source software.
> 
> http://technology.findlaw.com/articles/00006/010425.html
> 
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> 
> I didn't get any response when I asked if items like this above could be
> posted on this list or should be posted elsewhere, so I'm sending this one
> item I read today as a trial balloon.  If not here, where? If here, what
> parameters and limits?
> 
> Sylvia
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