When Versata Software sued Ameriprise Financial Services for breaching its software license, it unwittingly unearthed a GPL violation of its own and touched off another lawsuit that could prove to be a leading case on free and open source software licensing. This post takes a look at the legal issues raised by both cases and what they mean for FOSS producers and users. Read the whole article here.]]]]> ]]>
On Blackstone 6: Perjury, the FBI, & Obstruction of Justice
Tor Ekeland
December 6, 2019
In Volume 4 of his Commentaries on the Laws of England Blackstone offers an instructive definition of perjury. He defines it narrowly as a false
What’s Up with WhatsApp: Thoughts on the NSO CFAA Complaint
Tor Ekeland
October 30, 2019
I’ve been getting a lot of calls asking me what I think about the civil Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) lawsuit WhatsApp just filed
Room 3420 and the Birth of the Internet
Tor Ekeland
October 29, 2019
The internet turns 50 today. At 10:30pm PT on October 29, 1969 in room 3420 at UCLA the first networked digital data transmission was sent
Constitutional Basics: Congressional Supremacy
Tor Ekeland
October 28, 2019
The current presidential administration asserts so much intellectual garbage as valid constitutional theory I feel obligated to speak up. Reasonable people can, and do, disagree
On Blackstone 5: London Calling
Tor Ekeland
October 25, 2019
I’m just back from client meetings in London. While there I spoke with a Queens Counsel (only 10% of Barristers are “QC”) who shared my
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