In the open-source world, the choice of license shapes how software can be used, shared, and monetized. One of the most commercially significant—and sometimes controversial—licenses is the Affero General Public License (AGPL). Born from the same family as the GPL, AGPL adds a powerful twist: it extends copyleft obligations to software offered over a network.…
In a groundbreaking development for open-source law, a California court recently ruled that end users of a product embedded with open-source software may have the right to enforce the software license terms—even if they didn’t write the code themselves. At the center of this legal shift is SFC v. Vizio, a lawsuit filed by the…
Learn about the legal challenges surrounding open-source software licensing in a landmark case.
After years of legal battles, the Court of Appeal of Paris has issued a landmark decision against Orange, one of France’s leading telecom providers. The court found Orange guilty of copyright infringement and violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) in its use of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software. The ruling orders Orange to pay substantial…