EU plan could put open sourcers in court By Ingrid Marson, ZDNet (UK) Published on ZDNet News: August 2, 2005, 11:51 AM PT The European Commission has proposed a law that could allow criminal charges to be pressed against a business using software believed to infringe upon another company's intellectual property. The proposed directive, which was adopted by the European Commission last month, would allow criminal sanctions against "all intentional infringements of an IP right on a commercial scale." Richard Penfold, a partner at law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary, said last week that the proposed directive could "quite...