There's been a lot of news coverage recently about the lawsuits Busybox has filed against GPL violators. They're getting a lot of attention because analysts are interested in seeing if the GPL will be tested in a U.S. court. But that's not all the big news in the world of GPL enforcement: there's also a case in France over the Freebox that's starting up.
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Avoiding BSD v. GPL licensing issues
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In the wake of recent flareups over the inclusion of BSD licensed code in GPL licensed programs, a little extra vigilance can go a long way.
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Some important news from Wikipedia to understand clearly
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"...the Wikimedia Foundation Board has agreed with a proposal made by the Free Software Foundation that will permit Wikipedia (and other such wikis) to relicense under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. [...] My endless thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible, from Richard Stallman and the FSF board..."
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OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent ‘Foundation’
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When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum-backed Common Document Format (CDF) was the heir-apparent to what it believed was a dead-on-arrival OpenDocument Format, many confused the ODf to be one in the same with the ODF and the latter to have one foot in the grave.
Read more »Open Document Format Can Evolve Without Foundation Input
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Foundation President Gary Edwards lauds its work regarding the Massachusetts market requirements; others disagree.
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Why Microsoft Rattles The Patent Saber
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It must be maddening to believe you command developer loyalties and lead legions worldwide, then watch developers flock to the Linux kernel. Maddening, that is, if you're Microsoft. Why does Microsoft say its patents cover Linux, while at the same time reaching out to other open source code projects? It's the Linux kernel development process.
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Open Source Licensing: Should SugarCRM adopt the AGPL?
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The GNU Affero GPL v3 has recently been published, eventually closing the ‘Software as a Service Loophole‘, preventing code covered by AGPL to be offered as a service without modifications being published. Simon Phipps is surpised SugarCRM didn’t wait for Affero, while Michael Tiemann would like to see the AGPL tested in the marketplace.
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Software Group Targets Small Business
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Michael Gaertner worried he could lose his company. A group called the Business Software Alliance had written him to claim that his 10-person architectural firm in Galveston, Texas, was using unlicensed software.
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GNU Affero General Public License
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"The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure cooperation with the community in the case of network server software..."
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Embedded Linux goes Open Source
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DeviceVM, the maker of Splashtop software which features embedded Linux "Fast Boot" products like featured in the Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n has just released the source code to its software under GPL.
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FSF releases license for network-distributed software
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"Nearly five months after the release of the third version of the GNU General Public License (GPL), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has completed the updating of its key licenses by the release of the GNU Affero General Public License (GAGPL). The GAGPL is designed for use with software distributed over a network, such as a Web application or software as a service..."
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Thanksgiving Fund-Raising Appeal for Expert Witness Defense Fund Administered by Free Software Foundation
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"As many of you know, a remarkable event took place the other day, when the technical community reached out its hand to the victims of the RIAA reign of terror, and the Free Software Foundation established a special fund to assist the victims of the RIAA's onslaught. I think this is a cataclysmic event in the history of the RIAA's litigation campaign.
Read more »FSF finalizes GPL-based license for Web services
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"It's aimed at developers whose code is used for SaaS apps..."
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OpenDocument Foundation’s ‘woes’ have little to do with OpenDoc Format’s future
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I’ve been so busy with other stuff that I’ve only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium’s Common Document Format (CDF) had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it had been backing for so long.
Read more »November means turkey, GPLv3 adoption
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Here’s an update from Palamida about the 50+ OSS projects that have moved to version 3.0 of the GNU Public License over the past two weeks.
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