New Center to Protect Open-Source Software

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Freely distributed open-source software like the Linux operating system has become increasingly popular, but one cloud over its future has been legal risk. So far, most of the lawsuits have involved claims that software code owned by someone else found its way into a cooperative programming project.

A nonprofit legal center that opened Tuesday, backed by $4 million in initial financing from a corporate consortium, will provide advice from specialists that is intended to minimize the risk that developers and users of free software will be sued.

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New Center to Protect Open-Source Software

The Software Freedom Law Center, its founders say, will focus on helping the leaders of open-source software projects organize and ma...

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