Open Source Initiative board member, Simon Phipps, declared on Monday that Google’s WebM project “is not currently open source”. It was a statement based on the fact that the license used for WebM is not currently approved by the Open Source Initiative as being compliant with the Open Source Definition.
Read more »Is it time to rethink the open source license approval process?
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Samba Lawyer About Software Patents: The Only Solution is Abolition
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Carlo Piana seems to have just explained why attempts to work around software patents or use patent pools are probably a waste of time and genuinely good effort
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Novell’s Sale Puts SCO Case in Jeopardy
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SCO's procrastination may lead to a situation where Novell no longer bothers to fight for UNIX ownership
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License Equals Software Quality?
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Michael Hall, former editor of Linux Today, pointed out a blog entry with an interesting take on the recent beating Apple has been taking in the press lately. It was a posting that made me sit back and re-evaluate some of my own views.
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Hacking through the Software Patent Thickets
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Most people in the hacking community are well aware that patents represent one of the most serious threats to free software. But the situation is actually even worse than it seems, thanks to the proliferation of what are called patent thickets. To understand why these are so bad, and why they represent a particular problem for software, it is necessary to go back to the beginning of patent law.
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Phipps: WebM/VP8 "not currently open source"
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OSI Board member, Simon Phipps, says Google's VP8 codec is "not currently open source" and it is possible that the licence would not pass the OSI
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YouTube is Embracing VP8/WebM, But Software Patent Trolls and DRM Stand in the Way
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The closet patent troll Larry Horn as well as Steve Jobs are still the loudest opponents of VP8 and they prove the need to abolish software patents and DRM too
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Are Trade Secrets and Trademarks the Future?
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It's becoming increasingly clear that the Internet's perfect copying machine makes copyright largely irrelevant today: once a copy is online somewhere, it's impossible to take it down everywhere. Could the arrival of digital 3D printers like the open source RepRap do the same for patents, by making it possible for anyone to download and print off analogue objects?
Read more »Google's Video Codec Won't End Theora
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As Web browser vendors line up behind Google's new open source video codec, what does that mean for the codec from Mozilla?
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Filtering by computer fails on judgment
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The plan to filter the internet for material refused classification under Australian law is legally flawed.
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Report: MPEG LA planning patent pool for VP8
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MPEG LA CEO says it is looking at plans for a patent pool to "essential patent rights" for Google's recently open sourced VP8 video codec
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Linux Distros and the Codec Conundrum
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Is it ever acceptable for Linux distros to license codecs? Opinions range from "sure," to "never." No true-blooded supporter of FOSS wants to encourage proprietary codecs, but OS distributors need to make sure things work out of the box.
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Activiti BPM project questions value of LGPL GNU license
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Alfresco, SpringSource, Signavio, and Camunda collaboration born out of ISV weariness of GNU Lesser General Public License
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Google opens sources $124.6m video codec
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Google has taken a swashbuckling step towards open and license-free web video by open sourcing the leading codec from On2 Technologies, the video-compression outfit it acquired earlier this year for $124.6 million.
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I could license you to use this software, but then I’d have to kill you
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Developers, exercising their legal right specify their own licensing terms, have come up with some pretty whacky stuff. Fact or fiction? Some software is only legal to use after you are dead.
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