{"id":486,"date":"2008-08-15T08:20:35","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T08:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2008-08-15T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2008-08-15T08:24:55","slug":"just-because-its-free-doesnt-mean-you-can-steal-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/just-because-its-free-doesnt-mean-you-can-steal-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just because it&#8217;s free, doesn&#8217;t mean you can steal it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new ruling in the US Court of Appeals has confirmed that Artistic License copyright, used in open source software and creative commons licensing, is enforceable under federal law.  While the use of the software may be free, if it is resold  or repackaged, appropriate acknowledgement is required.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/technology\/7561943.stm\">BBC report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/weblog\/entry\/8826\">Creative Commons report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensource.org\/node\/360\">Open Source Initiative comment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groklaw.net\/article.php?story=2008081313212422\">Groklaw report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ruling in the US Court of Appeals has confirmed that Artistic License copyright, used in open source software and creative commons licensing, is enforceable under federal law. While the use of the software may be free, if it is resold or repackaged, appropriate acknowledgement is required. Read BBC report here. Read Creative Commons &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/just-because-its-free-doesnt-mean-you-can-steal-it\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Just because it&#8217;s free, doesn&#8217;t mean you can steal it.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ict"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-7Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}