In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source licensing, a software vendor has lost a civil case for failing to comply with open source license requirements

The issue was that the software was redistributed without including acknowledgement of the original work, including information about changes the defendants had made to the software, and with no mention of the software’s copyright holders.

“They also proceeded with the unlawful behaviour [of] ignoring the formal termination notice,” the company added, “which is the first protection tool implemented to safeguard the developers who decide to share their code in a free form.”

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In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source, a software vendor has been fined for failing to comply with an open source license.

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