Monty Widenius, founder of MySQL, has said in a blog posting – "Thoughts on Dual-Licensing Open Source Software" – that he recently became aware that Sun Microsystem's OEM licence agreement for MySQL would restrict users who had signed up for the commercial licence to the open source database from modifying MySQL or using any forks of MySQL.
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Thoughts about Dual-licensing Open Source software
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The basic idea for our dual-licensing was this: if you bought a license then we waived the GPL restriction that you have to redistribute your code as GPL.
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MIPS opens Android port under Apache license
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The action continues around Linux and open source in the embedded software space, where this week we are hearing that MIPS Technologies, a provider of processor technology for a range of networking, mobile, consumer and other devices, is open sourcing its port of the Linux-based Android OS software.
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Ubuntu: Patent Policy and Private Support
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Ubuntu has introduced a new Patent Policy to help developers and rights holders deal with software patent issues. With the Private Support, Canonical hopes to improve its revenue.
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SCO vs. Linux: SCO gets Chapter 11 trustee
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A Chapter 11 trustee has been commissioned to take over the business affairs of the SCO Group, which is threatened by bankruptcy. The trustee will work to guide the company out of the impending bankruptcy according to Chapter 11 of US bankruptcy code, but can also send the company into liquidation according to Chapter 7 and auction individual company assets to the highest bidder.
Read more »Embedded Android code goes open source
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The Android operating system is a step closer to being embedded in consumer electronics, after the company behind the Mips processor architecture open sourced the code for its Android port. Mips Technologies released the source code on Monday, two months after it first said it had ported Android to the 32-bit version of the Mips architecture.
Read more »ODF 1.2 Gains Approval, Garners Support, Microsoft Carries on Lying
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More success stories for OpenDocument Format (ODF); Microsoft is still pushing hard for proprietary OOXML
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Does the Open Invention Network (OIN) Become a Patent Harvester?
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What Happens to SCO Next? -- Some Possibilities
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A lot of you have been asking about what happens if SCO is sent into Chapter 7. I did some research for you and I'll show you what I found. But there are other possibilities on the table now, and I'll show you a bit about all of them. We'll try to find an answer to our question, what could happen to SCO now?
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A Jesuit's Guide to Open Standards
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Microsoft is at it again: trying to redefine what "open" means. This time they want open standards to be "balanced" - for them to include patent-encumbered technologies. Which just happens to be incompatible with free software licensed under the GNU GPL.
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Journal on free, open source software law launched
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An international peer reviewed biannual journal focusing exclusively on free and open source software law has been launched recently. It is managed by an editorial committee made up of members of the European Legal Network.
Read more »Dear Judge Gross - A Letter from SCO
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SCO has sent a letter to Judge Gross, in which it agrees to an auction and the appointment of someone to oversee the auction...
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Murphy's Law: LiberKey. GPL Violation or Sour Grapes?
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Hell hath no fury like an open-source developer scorned. In the red corner, we have Portable Apps and its developer, John Haller. In the blue corner, we have LiberKey and project manager Christophe Peuch.
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Patent reformer becomes troll, sues defunct OSS company
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Dave Garrod, a lawyer who leads patent reform group PubPat's initiative against false marking, is now playing the part of the patent troll. He filed a patent infringement lawsuit against a number of tech companies, including a small Texas software company that went out of business years ago.
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Further Progress for ODF, But Derailing Still Attempted by the Microsoft Crowd
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Listing of some new OpenDocument milestones and warning about those who try to push a stick into wheels of standards
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