open source legal developments

In 2015 there were a variety of legal issues of importance to the FOSS (free and open source) community. Continuing the tradition of looking back over the top ten legal developments in FOSS, my selection of the top ten issues for 2015 is as follows:

1. Settlement of Versata cases interpreting General Public License version 2 (GPLv2)
2. First decision interpreting General Public License version 3 (GPLv3)
3. Linux programmer sues VMware for violation of GPLv2 for Linux
4. Community GPL compliance
5. European Commission antitrust investigation of Google and its Android operating System (Android OS)...