[License-discuss] Does the LinShare "attribution" notice violate OSD?

[McCoy Smith]

Whew, I thought I missed an important decision. 😊

 

From: Simon Phipps <simon at webmink.net> 
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 2:50 PM
To: mccoy at lexpan.law; license-discuss at lists.opensource.org
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Does the LinShare "attribution" notice violate OSD?

 

The Neo4J case, not one involving Linagora (yet) - they are just the company behind Linshare.

 

Oh, I realise I said Linaro earlier - sorry! I meant Linagora.

 

S.

(in a personal capacity)

 

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 10:25 PM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law <mailto:mccoy at lexpan.law> > wrote:

OK I’ll bite: which case are you referring to?
I’m not seeing anything from Linaro on PACER.

 

From: License-discuss <license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org <mailto:license-discuss-bounces at lists.opensource.org> > On Behalf Of Simon Phipps
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 1:24 PM
To: license-discuss at lists.opensource.org <mailto:license-discuss at lists.opensource.org> 
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Does the LinShare "attribution" notice violate OSD?

 

 

 

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 9:21 PM Stefano Zacchiroli <zack at opensource.org <mailto:zack at opensource.org> > wrote:

On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 11:41:06AM -0700, McCoy Smith wrote:
> Seems like it might violate the definition of appropriate legal notice in GPLv3.

... hence, one should be able to just remove these de facto "further
restrictions", as per:

  > All other non-permissive additional terms are considered "further
  > restrictions" within the meaning of section 10. If the Program as
  > you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that
  > it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further
  > restriction, you may remove that term.

Right?

 

A recent court case in the US suggests that if Linaro owns all the copyrights it would be unwise to rely on that without further precedent or reliable defence.

 

Simon

(in a personal capacity)

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