"a major victory for all of those who release code"

Plagiarism Today posted an informative summation of the recent Jacobsen v Katzer decision [pdf] by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  The fundamental import of the case is this: infringement of the terms of an "open source" license amounts to copyright infringement and not just breach of the terms of a contract.  As Jonathan Bailey at PT lucidly explains, that has very important consequences for the range of remedies available against an infringer.