Focus (Forum & Focus)
May 12, 2007
Infringement Traps
Focus Column - By Jack Ko - Even businesses that don’t create or distribute software can run afoul of the “general public license” that protects some free software under “copyleft” principles.
By Jack Ko
Imagine that you are the general counsel of a Fortune 500 company and you have just received a cease-and-desist letter saying that your company is violating a software copyright license.
You are befuddled because your company does not create any software or profit from selling software. There is no record that your company ever entered into a software licensing agr...
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