Wednesday, August 03, 2005

EU plan could put open sourcers in court

The European Commission has proposed a law that could allowcriminal charges to be pressed against a business usingsoftware believed to infringe upon another company'sintellectual property. The proposed directive, which wasadopted by the European Commission last month, would allowcriminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements ofan IP right on a commercial scale."

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