Now that I’ve got your attention, don’t worry too much: Blizzard Entertainment, the company behind the popular World of Warcraft online game, isn’t trying to shut down open source software entirely. But in a recent legal filing (reported by the Virtually Blind weblog), they are asking a judge to take an unusual move: prohibiting a developer from releasing a particular bit of code as open source. Read on for the details.
Link: ostatic.com
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- Open Source
