Posted on June 8, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
What does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (or “SOX”) have to do with intellectual property you ask? While these two topics have historically made for strange bedfellows, the importance of managing intellectual property assets and issues surrounding those assets under Sarbanes-Oxley is increasingly becoming a potential trap for the unwary.
Passed into law in 2001 [...]
Filed under: Compliance, Intellectual Property, News and Alerts, Presentations and Panels, Updates, Webinars | Tagged: Adelphia, Enron, HealthSouth, Sarbanes-Oxley, SEC, Securities, SOX, Tyco, WorldCom | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 18, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has reached an agreement to settle and dismiss the lawsuit filed by Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, two of the principal developers of the popular BusyBox set of open source utilities, against Xterasys Corporation (a manufacturer of wireless routers and other networking products) alleging [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Compliance, Erik Andersen, GPL, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: Busybox, High-Gain, Monsoon, SFLC, Verizon, Xterasys | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 12, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
Stormy Peters over on the OpenLogic Blog has just officially announced the release of OpenLogic’s OSS Discovery tool as open source software under v3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL). I know that the folks at OpenLogic have been hard at work on this project for some time and are quite excited [...]
Filed under: AGPLv3, Busybox, Compliance, Open Source | Tagged: Affero GNU Affero General Public License, Open Logic, Open Source Census, OSS Discovery | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 21, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has filed two additional lawsuits on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility) alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendants in [...]
Filed under: Alert, Busybox, Compliance, Erik Andersen, GPL, Infringement, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: High-Gain Antennas, Xterasys Corporation | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 30, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
Just as quickly as it began, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced today that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, two of the principal developers of the popular BusyBox set of open source utilities, against Monsoon Multimedia, Inc. alleging a violation of [...]
Filed under: Compliance, Court Decision, GPL, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source, SFLC | Tagged: Busybox, Erik Andersen, Monsoon Multimedia, Rob Landley, Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) | 4 Comments »
