I thought you might like to read a hot-off-the-presses appellate court decision [PDF] in a case from Washington State, McKee (Michael) v. AT&T Corp., where the court just found certain clauses in AT&T's EULA "unconscionable".
Read more »ATandT EULA's Terms Are Found "Unconscionable" - What Does That Mean?
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Novell and SCO Agree on Interest, Trust Amounts; Final Judgment Still in Dispute
Novell filed today, as per the deadline, two documents, one an unopposed filing regarding interest due Novell by SCO -- SCO has agreed to the sum of $918,122 in prejudgment interest and $489 per day until the final judgment is entered.
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"Software Patents in Malaysia?"
In ComputerWorld Malaysia, next to the article about Linux in schools in Philippines, was this interesting box. Im not sure whether it was an advertorial, but it seems like a reignition of the software patent debate.
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Court rejects protest against Big Bang machine
IMO, this shows why we need a political dialogue between scientists and social movements across the planet...
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Inside the SFLC's "Practical Guide to GPL Compliance"
One of the goals of the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) is to become a center for education in free and open source software (FOSS) legal issues.
Read more »The FLA Gets Some Traction
Have you ever heard of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement - the FLA? No, it's not an alterative to other free and open source license agreements that you're probably already familiar with, like the GPL, Mozilla License, and BSD License. Rather, it's an adjunct to any copyleft license, designed to help ensure the long-term survivability of free software projects.
Read more »Piracy or Marketing?
Linux is often mentioned in discussions on Intellectual Property (IP) and the protection thereof. The reason is two-fold. First, the Linux platform is often seen as the “Wild West” where there are no (enforceable) laws. The perception is that Linux makes it easier to pirate software, music, video and other digitized IP products.
Read more »Another Global Effort to End Software Patents Once and For All
Another look at the battle against the commons around the world and new initiatives against it
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The End of P2P Throttling: FCC Slaps Comcast
"The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced its orders on Comcast, a major high-speed internet provider, to halt their practice of throttling selected peer-to-peer file sharing traffic.
Read more »Open Source Software and Patents: An Uneasy Journey of Discovery and Understanding
Over the past three months, I've been communicating at length with several leaders in the Open Source Software (OSS) community about how best to license software patents in a way that supports the goal of OSS developers, users, and distributors. I've learned a great deal along the way about the uneasy relationship between OSS and software patents.
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Watch Out, OASIS
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FLA for KDE .. WEE!
In case you missed it, the membership of KDE e.V. have adopted a new legal instrument: a Fiduciary License Agreement. You can read more about it on theDot and Linux Weekly News.
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SFLC's GPL Compliance Guide and Novell's SLED
Novell only makes publicly available to anyone, in free access (here and here), only the source code for the packages "as of release", e.g. as on the physical media for SLED 10 SP2, for instance! There is no way to get the sources for the updated packages, unless you're a customer!... Is this GPL-compliant? IANAL, but based on the GPL Compliance Guide, it looks like it's not.
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Hong Kong -- Here Comes Me Inc Software! -- and More Bankrupcy Bills
More bills, bills, bills in the bankruptcy, but it's winding down. But SCO is winding up. Guess where Me Inc Software, the subsidiary, is located? In Utah, or Delaware, or anyplace that the US bankruptcy court in Delaware or the creditors can get at the profits? Nay, m'lords. In Hong Kong.
Read more »Can Germany Fine Microsoft for Slandering GNU/Linux?
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