Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Jul 2007 15:19 UTC, submitted by Jim Garrison
"Development of OpenHAL, a wireless network component for Linux, can now resume unfettered after months of legal uncertainty. OpenHAL allows people with wireless cards based on technology from Atheros Communications, Inc. to connect to networks using solely free and open source software. Earlier this year, allegations were made that OpenHAL might include material that infringed the copyright of Atheros' proprietary HAL software. The Linux Wireless developers asked the Software Freedom Law Center to investigate these rumors, and SFLC agreed to help on a pro-bono basis."
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As the SFLC is a legal organization whose stated goal is to help proliferate copyleft software, asking their opinion in whether or not it's okay to infringe upon a company's copyrights seems to me like the answer would be predetermined, with only supporting evidence looked for.
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No. SFLC knows that what a court of law decides is the thing that matters. Not what they (the SFLC) say. Since they are interested in the *long term* welfare of FOSS, it makes no sense for them to be dishonest in that way. In fact, I imagine that they would be more inclined to err on the side of caution.
Edited 2007-07-31 15:58