2011: Top Ten FOSS Legal Developments

This year, 2011, was one of the most active years in legal developments in FOSS. This activity reflects the increase in FOSS use: Laura Wurster of Gartner, noted in the Harvard Business Review blog that open source has hit a “strategic tipping point” this year with companies increasingly focused on using “open source” software for competitive rather than cost reasons.

Continuing the tradition of looking back over top ten legal developments in FOSS, my selection of the top ten issues for 2011 are as follows:...