Google open source guru Chris DiBona says that the web giant continues to ban the lightning-rod AGPL open source license within the company because doing so "saves engineering time" and because most AGPL projects are of no use to the company.
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Who Are the FOSS Police?
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About 70 percent of the time, a mobile app that contains open source code fails to comply with basic FOSS licensing requirements, according to a study conducted by OpenLogic. With hundreds of thousands of mobile apps for platforms like iOS and Android, violations could be quite rampant, if the study's sample is representative of the whole. But who's place is it enforce these licenses, and how?
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Google Books Settlement Rejected
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We applaud the rejection by Judge Denny Chin of the Google Books class action settlement with authors and publishers regarding the digitization of books.
Read more »RMS on header files and derivative works
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Richard Stallman says "I've talked with our lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of using simple material from header files. Someone recently made the claim that including a header file always makes a derivative work. That's not the FSF's view..."
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Helpful lawyers think Google stole Linux code
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By now you have likely heard the noise about Google possibly violating the GPL by using Linux header files to create a new BSD-licensed library that userspace applications can interface with the Android kernel.
Read more »Questioning The Original Analysis On The Bionic Debate
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In short, the question is: Does Bionic (the Android/Linux default C library developed by Google) violate the GPL by importing “scrubbed” headers from Linux? For those of you seeking TL;DR version: You can stop now if you expect me to answer this question; I'm not going to.
Read more »Boycott companies who sign onto the MPEG LA's patent pool
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MPEG LA is asking companies to prepare to attack the freely licensed WebM format and its underlying VP8 video codec from Google.
Read more »Google forigos malkodilon de H.264 el sia TTT-legilo "Chrome"
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Dear PJ: Please Don't Quit Groklaw
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"And the truth is I felt used and abused. How could Novell enter into such a deal? Then top it off with selling 882 patents to a Microsoft-organized consortium?"
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How Uncle Sam invented television
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The inglorious history of the FCC and how AT&T attempted to strangle the concept of Net Neutrality in 1923.
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Eldonistoj oponas la proponatajn ŝanĝojn de Rusia aŭtorrajta leĝo
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La propono pri ŝanĝoj en la 4-a parto de Civila Kodekso de Rusio progresas ĝenerale sukcese malgraŭ alarmaj oponoj de reprezentantoj de kelkaj eldonejoj.
Unu el la proponataj ŝanĝoj certigos validecon de liberaj permesiloj, kaj ankoraŭ unu ebligos disvastigadon de fotoj de domoj kaj pontoj.
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Document: U.S. ACTA calls for comments
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The deadline for submission of written comments is, 5 p.m.,
Tuesday, February 15, 2011.
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Information is the Antidote to Fear
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Hopefully, this information will help counter much of the fear that our government's so-called "war" against Wikileaks has generated.
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Homeland Security's Domain Name Seizure May Stretch The Law Past The Breaking Point
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Amazingly, it appears that Homeland Security contracted out the seizures to a private company, immixGroup IT Solutions, which set up the "seizedservers.com" domain that the seized domains now point to.
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Six Key Answers to Copyright Bill Questions
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Canadian copyright law promises to dominate discussion in Ottawa over the coming weeks as hearings on Bill C-32, the controversial copyright bill, are set to begin within a few days.
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